Plate, with upside-down firing and mould-impressed decoration, the whole of the design in raised motifs: the centre, enclosed in a key pattern circle, composed of two carps rising in the water; the remainder of peonies, all within a bold triple-lining. Rim bound with copper rim-band. 

As moulding became popular in representing  fish on ding ware (made in Dingzhou) in the late Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127 AD), the size of the fish became smaller, as compared with early carved examples, in which the motif occupied the well and the side of the bowl.

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Plate, with upside-down firing and mould-impressed decoration, the whole of the design in raised motifs: the centre, enclosed in a key pattern circle, composed of two carps rising in the water; the remainder of peonies, all within a bold triple-lining. Rim bound with copper rim-band. As moulding became popular in representing fish on ding ware (made in Dingzhou) in the late Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127 AD), the size of the fish became smaller, as compared with early carved examples, in which the motif occupied the well and the side of the bowl.

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