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二 29. A pair of Chinese imperial porcelain yellow saucer dishes, each incised in the well of the interior with a medallion of fruiting peach

十 branches, peach flowers and leaves, with an incised double ring, covered overall in an even yellow glaze slightly pooling above the
九 foot rim.

御 4 ¼ inches, 10.8 cm diameter.
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Six-character marks of Yongzheng within double rings in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.

黃 • Formerly in the collection of Richard Fairfax William Cartwright, 1903-1954. Richard Cartwright inherited the Aynhoe Estate
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劃 in 1928 and made his first independent purchases of Chinese art shortly after. He was descended from a family of great art
花 collectors. The estate was first purchased in 1616, by his ancestor of the same name. The Chinese room at Aynhoe was famous

桃 for its cabinets with each case devoted to a particular colour.

紋 • Sold by Peter Boode, London.
小 • A similar example is illustrated by Ulrich Weisner in Chinese Porcelain, The Ohlmer Collection in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim,
盤 Mainz, 1981, pl. 103.
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對 • A yellow saucer dish incised with a central dragon medallion is illustrated by Dr. Robert Jacobsen and Julian Thompson in
Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi-Yongzheng-Qianlong, A Selection from the Wang Xing

清 Lou Collection, no. 93, pp. 236/7.
雍 • The peach, tao, is an important symbol of longevity. The tree blossoms in March and is also a symbol of Spring.

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