A molded 'Longquan' celadon-glazed 'double fish' dish, Southern Song / Yuan dynasty | 南宋 / 元 龍泉窰青釉貼雙魚盤

Dishes of this popular design were produced from the Southern Song dynasty to the Yuan dynasty. A dish of this type, attributed to the Yuan dynasty, is included in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, pl. 218; two dishes recovered from a ship wrecked off the coast of Korea in 1323 are illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off Sinan. Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 11, no. 13; and another dish is published in T. Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East: Topkapi and Ardebil, Hong Kong, 1981, vol. III, pl. A230. See another, attributed to the Southern Song or Yuan period, published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, pl. 559.  

For a Southern Song example see a dish in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, included in the exhibition Ice and Green Clouds. Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1987, cat. no. 77, together with various related dishes and shards of both Song and Yuan periods, figs 77a-g.