A pair of small Longquan celadon 'twin fish' dishes, Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty. Photo Bonhams.

Potted with shallow rounded sides rising to a flat rim, the interior moulded to the centre with a pair of fish, detailed with raised scales and fins, the exterior moulded with lobes resembling upright lotus petals, covered overall in a pale olive-green glaze. 13.3cm diam. (2). Estimate HK$ 50,000 - 80,000 (€4,700 - 7,600). Unsold

A Longquan washer with similar moulded decoration is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selected Specimens of Chinese Porcelain, Taipei, 1959, pl.32. For a closely-related but larger example of a Longquan celadon dish or brushwasher, moulded with twin-fish decoration, see Simon Kwan and Li Zhiyan, Song Ceramics, Hong Kong, 2012, pg. 208, pl.57.

Compare also with a larger dish with similar 'twin fish' decoration sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4234.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART. Hong Kong, Admiralty, 26 May 2014 14:00 HKT - http://www.bonhams.com/