Lot 5. A rare blue and white and copper-red peach-shaped dish, Early Kangxi period (1662-1722); 25.7cm diam. Sold for €7,040.  Photo Bonhams.

Well potted in the shape of a peach with steep sides, finely painted to the interior with a two figures on the shores of a water way, standing beside a pavilion surrounded by the 'Three Friends of the Winter', a gnarled pine, swaying bamboo, and flowering prunus tree, a fisherman on a boat passing, all beneath an inscription, the base unglazed.

Provenance: Collection of T. Wischmann, Koblenz, acquired from Bernheimer, Munich, on 1 March 1989.

Note: The companion piece to this rare peach-shaped dish, painted in the style of the 'Master of the Rocks', from the Marsh collection, was sold in Bonhams London, 3 November 2022, lot 18. The footnote notes that the Marsh dish may be related to two circular blue and white dishes with copper-red details and and calligraphic inscriptions, dated to the Kangxi-period, illustrated in Regina Krahl, China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, London, 2018, pp.240-241, no.145. Compare with a similarly decorated bowl in the Butler collection, published in Katharine Butler and Teresa Canepa, Leaping the Dragon Gate, London, 2021, inv.no. 1384, p.417, and two blue and white dishes with poetic inscriptions, illustrated ibid., p.420 and p.426.

Bonhams - Cornette de Saint Cyr. CHINESE ART FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION, Paris, 26 October 2023