Lot Essay
Compare with three identical dishes of this extremely rare pattern. The first, a pair to the present dish, was in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., exhibition, Joined Colors, Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 61, and sold in these Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 27 April 1997, lot 58; one from the Goldschmidt Collection was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 36; and another illustrated by Schmidt, Chinesische Keramik, pl. 122(d), where a fourth 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, Taipei, pl. 79. For a discussion on the symbolism of peaches, see footnotes to the preceding lot.
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, Taipei, pl. 79. For a discussion on the symbolism of peaches, see footnotes to the preceding lot.
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