The dish is decorated in the center in deep shades of underglaze blue with two fish amidst sea plants and is similarly decorated on the reverse with five fish. The base is inscribed with a four-character seal mark which reads, dehua changchun ('influence with virtue, everlasting spring').

Provenance: Edward T. Chow (1910-1980) Collection.
The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part Three; Sotheby Parke Bernet Ltd., Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 416.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

Note: A blue and white dish of nearly identical size (18.2 cm. diam.) decorated with fish and waterweeds, also with a Wanli nianzao mark encircling a seal mark reading dehua changchun, is in the collection of the Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is illustrated in Yuan and Ming Blue and White Ware from Jiangxi, Nanchang, 2002, no. 96.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 25 September 2020