Lot 3097. A doucai 'Shou'-character dish, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 14.3 cm., 5 5/8  in. . Estimate 200,000 - 300,000 HKD. Lot sold 500,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's 2013.

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

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5th November 1996, lot 914.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 2000, lot 176

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. Hong Kong, 08 Oct 2013