18 juillet 2016
A large blue and white and underglaze-red ‘peach’ dish, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)
Lot 411. A large blue and white and underglaze-red ‘peach’ dish, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795). Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 HKD. Lot sold 75,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's
sturdily potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a slightly everted rim, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing three peaches borne on gnarled leafy branches, the cavetto similarly painted with branches bearing finger-citrons, pomegranates and lychees, all rendered in simulated ‘heaping and piling’, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue; 36.6 cm., 14 3/8 in.
Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 03 Dec 2015
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