Lot 3208
3208
A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'NINE PEACHES' DISH
A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'NINE PEACHES' DISH
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A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'NINE PEACHES' DISH

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795), THE YELLOW ENAMEL POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD

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A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'NINE PEACHES' DISH
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795), THE YELLOW ENAMEL POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD
The dish is finely painted with a central medallion of nine peaches suspended from gnarled leafy branches within a border of double-circles, repeated below the mouth rim, the exterior with a dense interwoven convolvulus scroll between double lines, all on a bright lemon-yellow ground.
10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
Provenance
Collection of Harry Nail, Palo Alto, California, 1960
Collection of John Yeon, Portland, Oregon
Sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot 331 (one of a pair)
S. Marchant & Son, London
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Lot Essay

Similar examples include one in the National Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 29; one in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no. 247; and another from the collection of Harry Hellebronth illustrated by U. Wiesner in the catalogue for the exhibition, Chinesische Keramik, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, 1988, pp. 142-3, no. 100. Compare also a pair of similar dishes from the T. Y. Chao Collection, included in the exhibition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, 1973, no. 45, and later sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 19 March 1987.

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