北宋 定窰刻花雙魚紋盌

finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a low footring, swiftly incised on the recessed interior floor with two carps leaping above combed waves, applied overall with a pale ivory-tinged glaze occasionally pooling in darker tear-drops down the exterior, the rim encircled with metal, silk pouch and Japanese box

壺中居，東京

The dish is in good overall condition. There are some expected surface scratches to the glaze on the interior and underside, consistent with the type and in commensuration with age. The metal rim appear to be a later replacement.
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觀本品，細工精刻，起刀流暢，飾雙魚紋，自然靈動。同類者，多見各大博物館及私人珍藏。參考一例，藏台北國立故宮博物院，展《定州花瓷·院藏定窰細白瓷特展》，台北，2014年，圖版II-25。亦見一例，藏雅典貝納基博物館， 載 Leigh Ashton 及 R.L. Hobson，《Catalogue of the Benaki Museum》，雅典，1939年，圖版258。另見一例，Wayland Wells Williams 收藏，現藏紐黑文耶魯大學美術館，錄 George J. Lee，《Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery》，紐黑文，1970年，圖版292。參考一盌例，George Eumorfopoulos 收藏，載 R.L. Hobson，《The Eumorfopoulos Collection》，卷3，倫敦，1926年，圖版XXVI，編號C130。另見兩例，售倫敦蘇富比，其一於1963年5月28日，編號62，出自 V.W. Shriro 收藏；其二於1957年10月29日，編號131，原為 Blanco White 夫人收藏。

雙魚者，中國傳統紋飾，深入民心，寓意吉慶，作歲歲豐餘之意，表魚水和諧之美。