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A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEACH’ DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1736-1795)

清乾隆 仿明青花壽桃紋盤 六字篆書款

The dish is painted in the Ming style with simulated ‘heaping and piling’ with a
gnarled branch bearing nine peaches. The exterior depicts a frieze of convolvulus
scroll bearing nine fowers and buds, all within double line borders.

10Ω in. (26.7 cm.) diam.

£15,000-20,000 $23,000-30,000
€21,000-27,000

PROVENANCE:

With London Stamp Exchange, London 13 November 1971.
From the Collection of Francis Golding (1944-2013).

來源: 英國私人藏家弗朗西斯．戈爾丁（1944 -2013）珍
藏；於1971年11月13日購自London Stamp Exchange

See an almost identical Ming-style blue and white ‘peach’ dish ofered
at Christie’s New York, 19 March 2009, lot. 2269. Dishes of this size
and pattern, also with Qianlong seal marks, are more usually seen
with a yellow enamelled ground, such as the example in the Percival
David Foundation illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great
Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no. 247. See, also, the dish sold in these
rooms, 19 March 2008, lot 602.

A similar blue and white dish, without the yellow enamel, is illustrated
by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985,
no. 96.

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