A SMALL CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON GLAZED 'MARRIAGE' DISH SONG/YUAN DYNASTY The shallow body with a...

A SMALL CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON GLAZED 'MARRIAGE' DISH

SONG/YUAN DYNASTY

The shallow body with a flattened everted rim, moulded to the interior with a pair of fish, the reverse with a faint radiating petal design, a paper label for Bluett & Sons London, raised on a hardwood five-legged stand, 13.2cm. (2)

Provenance: purchased by Bluett & Sons from Spink & Son, 2nd October 1935, for £8. The collection of Basil Drewe, purchased from Bluett & Sons, 29th February 1936, for £12:10, and thence by descent.

Cf. G Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, p.165, pl.83B, where an example formerly in the Russell collection is illustrated; see also the National Palace Museum, Green: Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, pp.258-59, nos.141 & 142 for other examples.