A Chinese Longquan celadon 'twin fish' moulded dish, Song dynasty
宋 龍泉窰青釉貼雙魚折沿盤

The finely potted shallow dish with rising from a short tapering foot, with gently rounded sides and everted rim, the exterior carved with lotus petals, the interior applied with a pair of scaly fish swimming in opposite directions, covered in a bluish-green glaze

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Dimensions: 12.5cm diameter

Wilfrid Fleisher (1897‑1976), Sweden, thence by descent in the family;

Santos Collection

來源：

威爾弗里德・弗萊舍（1897-1976），後由其家族繼承；

桑托斯收藏

The Fleisher Collection was assembled by Wilfrid Fleisher, whose father, Ben Fleisher, left the United States for Japan and, in 1908, founded the country’s first English-language newspaper. Soon after to become the most influential English-language publication in the Far East. Raised in Japan, Wilfrid later served as Editor-in-Chief of The Japan Advertiser. Early on he developed a keen interest in Chinese and Japanese works of art, building an extensive collection during the 1920s and 1930s with a particular focus on ceramics and jades. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the Fleisher family was forced to leave Japan, eventually settling in Sweden.

弗萊舍收藏由威爾弗里德・弗萊舍（Wilfrid Fleisher）所建立。其父本・弗萊舍（Ben Fleisher）於 1908 年自美國赴日，創辦日本首份英文報紙，後成為遠東最具影響力的英語出版物。威爾弗里德自幼在日本成長，後任《Japan Advertiser》總編輯。其早年即對中日藝術品產生濃厚興趣，於二十至三十年代積累龐大收藏，尤以陶瓷與玉器為重。第二次世界大戰爆發後，弗萊舍一家被迫離開日本，最終定居瑞典。