A rare doucai 'shou and peach' dish, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period. Photo: Bonhams.

The shallow dish painted in underglaze blue with a shou character in the central well behind a peach containing a crane in flight, all enclosed with a wide border containing four shou medallions alternating with four leafy peaches surrounded by foliate scrolls, the exterior with three clumps of rockwork issuing bamboo and lingzhi fungus. 21cm (8 1/4in) diam. Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 (€12,000 - 18,000)

Provenance: a Swiss private collection

For a very similar dish, see Yang Boda, The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no.118.

A similar dish sold at Christie's New York, 15-16 September 2011, lot 1540.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART, London, New Bond Street, 15 May 2014 10:00 - http://www.bonhams.com/