Dish with fruiting peach tree. Porcelain decorated in iron-red. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, AD 1522–1566 (later painted). On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF 736 © Trustees of the British Museum

Height: 30 mm. Diameter: 147 mm. Porcelain dish with rounded sides, straight rim, and tapering footring. There is a peach tree with linzhi fungus within a double-circled roundel in red overglaze enamel in the centre of the interior, a petal band above the footring, and four fruiting peach branches on the exterior. There is a mark in red enamel on the base.

This dish is decorated over the glaze with a design of fruiting peach tree and longevity fungus inside and with four fruiting branches outside all in iron-red. The base has a six-character iron- red Jiajing reign mark.

Bibliographic reference: Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978

Feng, Rebecca, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming Style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2006