A FINE AND VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE AND DOUCAI 'PEACH' DISH

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A FINE AND VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE AND DOUCAI 'PEACH' DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely pencilled and washed in shades of cobalt-blue in the central medallion with an aged peach tree bearing nine ripe fruit highlighted in delicate shades of pink and green, behind ornamental rockwork, short grasses and lingzhi, the reverse with eight cranes in flight, each in a different attitude, their crests highlighted in iron-red, all within double-line borders
7 1/4 in. (18.3 cm.) diam.

Exhibited

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Joined Colo rs, Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1993, Catalogue, no. 61.

Lot Essay

The pair to this dish, from the Goldschmidt Collection, was sold in Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 36.

Compare to another identical example illustrated by Schmidt, Chinesische Keramik, pl. 122 (d), where a third is recorded in Dresden.

A Yongzheng-marked blue and white dish of this pattern was included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 79.

(US$100,000-150,000)

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