Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish functonal This is just about the

This is just about the most beautiful little Japanese fan--sensu--that I can imagine

signed Siku

and if I did not know better

I purchased the piece from the estate of a dancer/choreographer in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood

Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish functonal This is just about theThis beautiful small pottery plate with two spiraling fish is a bit of a mystery. At the center of the back is incised FREGATTEN which means frigate, or ship, in multiple Scandinavian languages as well as German, I believe. I have found some plates, including a few produced by Royal Copenhagen, on which this word appearsand I understand that in Denmark it is generally used to refer to the Fregatten Jylland, one of the world's largest wooden warships.