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A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI AND FAMILLE ROSE 清雍正 鬥彩加粉彩九桃紋盤 雙圈六字楷書款
‘NINE PEACHES’ DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 此盤紋飾非常罕見。近似例可參考香港佳士得 1997 年 4 月 27 日拍賣一
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) 件，拍品 58 號；Goldschmidt 舊藏一件，後於香港蘇富比 1990 年 11 月
13 日拍賣，拍品 36 號；香港佳士得 2003 年 10 月 27 日拍賣一件，拍品
The dish is finely painted to the interior with a central medallion
enclosing a peach tree bearing nine ripe friut highlighted in 657 號，後再於 2015 年 6 月 3 日拍賣，拍品 3145 號。
delicate shades of pink and green, beside rocks and lingzhi. The 另可比較台北故宮博物院所藏一件僅飾青花輪廓的例子，典藏編號為故
reverse is decorated with eight cranes in flight, each in a different 瓷 –008899。
position, their crests picked out in iron red.
7 æ in. (18.8 cm.) diam., box
HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000
Peaches have traditionally been associated with Daoism and longevity.
In mythology, the goddess Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the
Western Paradise, owned a vast peach orchard, and it was said that
anyone who ate the fruit would become immortal. As such, peaches
are considered sacred and auspicious, and when used as a decorative
motif, convey wishes for longevity and good fortune. Vessels decorated
with luxuriant peach branches were very popular in the Qing dynasty,
and might have been commissioned as birthday gifts or as a form of
commemoration for an imperial birthday.
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, Ceramics from Collectors
in the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 61, and subsequently
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 April 1997, lot 58; another was in
the Goldschmidt Collection, and later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
13 November 1990, lot 36; one was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27
October 2003, lot 657, and later again on 3 June 2015, lot 3145.
Compare also a Yongzheng-marked blue and white dish of this pattern
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number guci-008899.

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