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A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE ‘PEACH’ DISH
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI

清康熙 五彩壽桃盤

《大清康熙年製》款

the shallow rounded sides resting on a tapered foot, brightly
enamelled on the interior with a large peach of variegated
green, mottled olive and rusty brown tones, inscribed with two
seal characters reading wanshou (longevity) in gilt, the fruit
borne on a knotted bough issuing lanceolate leaves of various
shades of green, similarly painted on the exterior with three
detached sprays of peach gilt with shou characters, the base
inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue
within a double circle
28.7 cm, 11¼ in.

HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,500-38,300

Dishes of this design are rare, although one in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong.
Qing Imperial Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection,
Hong Kong, 1989, p. 70, pl. 53; another from the Sir Percival
David collection, and now in the British Museum, London, is
published in Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great Collections,
vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 218; and a third example was sold in
our London rooms, 5th December 1995, lot 306.
Dishes of this type were made for the Kangxi Emperor as ten
thousand longevities could only be designated for the emperor
and empresses of China. Wanshou, which means ‘ten
thousand longevities’, written inside a peach represents the
wish, ‘May the immortal peach grant you longevity (wanshou
wujiang)’.

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