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Peaches have traditionally been associated with Daoism Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Hong
and longevity. In mythology, the goddess Xiwangmu, the Kong, 1993, no. 61, and subsequently sold at Christie’s Hong
Queen Mother of the Western Paradise, owned a vast peach Kong, 27 April 1997, lot 58; another was in the Goldschmidt
orchard, and it was said that anyone who ate the fruit would Collection, and later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
become immortal. As such, peaches are considered sacred 13 November 1990, lot 36; one was sold at Christie’s Hong
and auspicious, and when used as a decorative motif, convey Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 657, and later again on 3 June
wishes for longevity and good fortune. Vessels decorated 2015, lot 3145.
with luxuriant peach branches were very popular in the Qing Compare also a Yongzheng-marked blue and white dish of
dynasty, and might have been commissioned as birthday gifts this pattern in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection
or as a form of commemoration for an imperial birthday.
number guci-008899.
Compare to three other dishes of this pattern and palette. One
was included in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington D.C., exhibition, Joined Colors,

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