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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI DISHES

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI DISHES
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with rounded flaring sides, decorated in the center of the interior with a gnarled peach tree twisted in the form of a shou character bearing eleven peaches, growing from a grassy mound between rockwork and lingzhi, within double lines at the well and rim, the reverse with three similar peach trees divided by underglaze blue tree-form ruyi sprays--5¾in. (14.7cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

A similar dish with Qianlong mark was included in the exhibition, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue no. 92. Compare, also, the similar dish, along with a Daoguang example, in the Birmingham Museum of Art, illustrated by J. Seto, Handbook of the Oriental Collection, no. 34 a&b, where it is noted that, "large orders of these saucers were apparently made during the Qianlong period", and where the differences between the two examples is discussed