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A FINE LARGE YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE ‘NINE

PEACHES’ DISH

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1736-1795)

The dish is finely painted with a central medallion of nine peaches suspended from
gnarled leafy branches within a border of double-circles, repeated below the mouth rim,
the exterior with a dense interwoven convolvulus scroll between double lines, all on a
bright lemon-yellow ground.
10 ¬ in. (27 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

HK$1,500,000-2,500,000 US$200,000-320,000

PROVENANCE

Collection of Harry Nail, Palo Alto, California, 1960
Collection of John Yeon, Portland, Oregon
Sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 331 (one of a pair)
S. Marchant & Son, London

Similar examples include one in the National Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Blue and
White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Book II, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 29; one in the Percival David
Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982,
no. 247; and another from the collection of Harry Hellebronth illustrated by U. Wiesner in the
catalogue for the exhibition, Chinesische Keramik, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, 1988,
pp. 142-3, no. 100. Compare also a pair of similar dishes from the T. Y. Chao Collection, included
in the exhibition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong
Collection, 1973, no. 45, and later sold at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 19 March 1987.

清乾隆 黃地青花九桃盤 六字篆書款

來源
Harry Nail 珍藏，加利福尼亞州帕羅奧圖，1960 年
John Yeon 珍藏，俄勒岡州波特蘭
紐約佳士得，2007 年 3 月 22 日，拍品 331 號（一對之一）
S. Marchant & Son，倫敦

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