with shallow rounded sides rising from a low tapering foot, the interior painted in bright enamels with a central medallion enclosing a fruiting peach tree bearing eleven fruit, its trunk twisted and bent to form a shou character above a sprig of lingzhi and rocks in underglaze blue, all within a double-line border repeated at the rim, the exterior with three further peach trees each forming a shou character divided by underglaze-blue lingzhi scrolls, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue. 

Provenance: Collection of Mrs. Yau Tong Hak (according to label)

Note: A Qianlong doucai dish of this pattern was included in the exhibition Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 92. Compare another dish of this design, also from the collection of Mrs. Yau Tong Hak, sold in these rooms, 14th March 2017, lot 524. Dishes of this type and period have also sold in our London rooms, 1st-2nd April 1974, lot 324; in our Hong Kong rooms, 13th May 1976, lot 337, and 24th May 1978, lot 243; and at Christie's Hong Kong, 28th April 1997, lot 747. 

A small doucai 'Shou' dish, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795) from the collection of Mrs. Yau Tong Hak. Width 5 5/8  in., 14.3 cm. Sold 40,000 USD at Sotheby's New York, 14th March 2017, lot 524. Photo: Sotheby's. 

Cf. A small doucai 'Shou' dish, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795)

A doucai 'Shou'-character dish, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795), 14.3 cm., 5 5/8  in. Sold for 500,000 HKD at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 08 October 2013, lot 3097.

Cf. A doucai 'Shou'-character dish, Seal mark and period of Qianlong