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           AN EXTREMELY LARGE AND RARE      her chief residence between 1856 and 1885.
           BLUE AND YELLOW ‘NINE PEACH’     Ronald W. Longsdorf in ‘The Tongzhi Imperial
           CHARGER                          Wedding Porcelain’, Orientations, October 1996,
                                            p. 70, notes that Cixi had the palace refurbished
           CHUXIUGONG MARK, GUANGXU         on her 50th birthday in 1884, with luxurious
           PERIOD                           objects of monumental size, many modeled after
                                            prototypes from the 18th century.
           stoutly potted, with gently rounded sides
           rising from a short foot, painted in deep tones   The design of nine peaches in underglaze blue
           of underglaze blue with a central medallion   and yellow enamel is derived from Yongzheng and
           enclosing a gnarled peach tree, its two principal   Qianlong period porcelains. Compare a smaller
           branches extending around the border of the   Yongzheng dish in the Percival David Collection
           panel, issuing nine ripening peaches, the reverse   at the British Museum, illustrated in Margaret
           with a continuous scroll of morning glory, all   Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome
           reserved on a rich lemon-yellow ground stopping   Wares, London, 1978, pl. A795. Another dish of
           neatly around the four-character Chu xiu gong zhi   the same size, but Qianlong mark and period, in
           seal mark, reserved in a white cartouche   the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated
           Diameter 28⅜ in., 72.1 cm        in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum.
                                            Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong
           PROVENANCE                       Kong, 1968, pls 29a-b.
           Collection of Gustav Detring (1842-1913) or   Three smaller dishes of this design and bearing
           Constantin von Hanneken (1854-1925), and
                                            Chuxiugong marks are known. The " rst, in the
           thence by descent.
                                            Baur Collection, Geneva (64.7 cm diameter), is
                                            illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection.
           EXHIBITED
                                            Chinese Ceramics, vol. 4, Geneva, 1974, pl. A586.
           Chinesischekunst/Exhibition of Chinese Art,   Another, formerly in the collection of Captain Otto
           Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 723.
                                            Lö<  er (48.3 cm diameter), was sold at Christie’s
           The Chuxiugong (Palace of Gathering Elegance)   London, 8th November 2005, lot 170. A third,
           is one of the six Western palaces in the Forbidden   27cm diameter, sold in our Paris rooms, 9th June
           City, favored by the Empress Dowager Cixi and   2011, lot 203.
                                            $ 40,000-60,000
                                            ૶Έၫ   රήڡڀɘࣹᚂ،ڀ̓७ɽᆵ
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                                            ᅃᆪ೙  1842 1913  אဏॶ࣬  1854 1925  ϗ
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                                            Chinesischekunst‘dݡ؍d1929ϋd
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           The present lot included in the catalogue Chinesischekunst/Exhibition of Chinese Art, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 723.
           ͉ۜͪྡ׵Chinesischekunst‘dݡ؍d1929ϋdᇜ໮723


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