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this is a beautiful twin fish platter I n a celadon of very similar to a Ming ring handled vase I have. So similar I took a cha celadon and bought it from across the room sight unseen at an auction bit cant find any record of this high relief carved sign.
thanks

It is nice to know what the dish looks like to you, but until you show full views of it to the rest of us, you're leaving us to work in the dark, without knowing anything about it but the mark. Tsk, tsk.

The mark on the dish is shown on its left side. When flipped 90 degrees to the right, it appears possibly to read down and across from the top right in Mandarin as "Zhong Guo Qing Fa (中國青髮. I believe this may be translated as "China, black hair". "Qing" (青), can mean a drab color or green, blue or black in various contexts. In its context of Black and green, "Qing" combined with "Fa" (髮 - Hair) probably imparts a sense of youthfulness. By comparison, "Huang Fa" (黃髮 - literally Yellow Hair) connotes the graying hair of oldsters.

Marks with "China" (中國) in them instead of a reign mark date from 1912 and later. I can find no other information regarding this mark online.

Bill H.

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