A COPPER-RED SILHOUETTE 'THREE FISH' BOWL, KANGXI China, 1662-1722. Chenghua six-character mark within a double square painted in cobalt-blue to the base. The porcelain bowl with rounded sides and flaring rim rising from a cylindrical foot, decorated with three evenly spaced fish tinged with small areas of green and patches of liver-red. Provenance: From the collection of Jerrold Schecter, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine, serving as Times bureau chief in Tokyo, Moscow and the White House. The present bowl was acquired in Tokyo between 1964 and 1968. Condition: Superb condition with only minor firing irregularities and old wear. Weight: 805.6 g Dimensions: Diameter 21.6 cm This cup was produced in the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen in southern China during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1662-1722). The decoration of the three stylized fishes in underglaze copper red was made after a Ming original of the 15th century, and a mark of the Chenghua Emperor (1464- 1487) is painted in the inside. The practice of adding marks of earlier periods can often be seen on Chinese porcelain. In this case, the combination of the Chenghua mark with a decorative style of the Ming dynasty can be interpreted as an homage to the past and a form of reverence to earlier dynasties. These rare silhouetted red-and-white Ming period and Ming style Kangxi wares used copper-red glazes rather than underglaze red pigments for their effects. The red fish may have been designed with the help of paper stencils. Literature comparison: Chinese Glazes, Their Origins, Chemistry, and Recreation, Nigel Wood, London 2007, page 181. Also compare with Victoria and Albert Museum, C.108-1929. Jerrold Schecter Auction result comparison: Compare with a pair of stem cups bearing the same design, but with Xuande marks, at Sotheby's New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, 11 September 2012, lot 15, sold for USD $37,500. 仿明釉裏紅三魚紋碗，康熙 中國，1662-1722。碗底雙圈青花成化六字款。瓷碗圈足直挺，碗外壁用釉裏紅繪製三條魚，局部汎綠，生動活潑。 來源：來自Jerrold Schecter私人收藏，他曾是《華爾街日報》與《時代雜志》記者，是《時代雜志》在東京、莫斯科和白宮的主編。此碗是1964至1968年他在東京所購。 品相：品相優良，僅輕微燒製瑕疵與老磨損。 重量：805.6 克 尺寸：直徑21.6 厘米