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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE
AND LARGE FINE BLUE AND WHITE
RESERVE-DECORATED ‘PEONY’ DISH
XUANDE MARK AND PERIOD

well potted, the shallow rounded sides rising from a short
tapered foot to a delicately everted rim, boldly decorated
to the interior with a large peony bloom borne on a leafy
stem enclosed within a single line border and framed at
the well by fruiting branches of loquat, cherry, persimmon,
peach, lychee and pomegranate, the exterior decorated with
a continuous chrysanthemum scroll, all nely incised and
reserved against a rich ‘royal blue’ glaze, beneath a further
transparent glaze, the six-character mark inscribed in
underglaze blue in a horizontal line reserved in a rectangular
cartouche just below the rim, the unglazed base burnt
orange

Diameter 15¼ in., 38.6 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Baron Guy de Villelume (1908-1991),
Château de La Gorgue, France (until 1988).
A French Private Collection.

Guy de Villelume (1908-1991)
1988

$ 1,000,000-1,500,000