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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED FOLIATE DISH
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The interior is boldly decorated with the spreading, gnarled branches of a fruiting peach tree
that bears nine large peaches amidst fowers, beneath the foliate rim decorated with bats amidst
clouds. The exterior is decorated with three peach sprigs between borders of bats and leafy
foliate scroll.
14 in. (35.6 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Japan, acquired in the frst half of the 20th century.
清十八/十九世紀 青花釉裡紅九桃紋花口盤
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