Dekor i underglasyrblått av två parställda femkloade drakar sträcker sig efter en persika med ett lyckotecken, persikan växer upp på en slingrande växt från klippor och vilda vågformationer. Baksidan med ytterligare fyra vilda drakar bland molnformationer. Botten med Jiajings sex karaktärers märke 27x27 cm.
Lagat.
From the Collection of Christer Löfgren. Mr Löfgren is a prominent collector of Asian Art, Bukowskis has previously had the honour of selling parts of his vast collection. After publishing the second book on Chinese Imperial Regin Marks, the volume ‘Understanding Chinese Reign marks’, he has made the decision to sell his final pieces.
Purchased from Marchant & Son in London, in the 1990's.
Compare a similar dish in the: Collection of Chinese Art at Winchest Colleague.
Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from the collection of C.M. Woodbridge, sold Sotheby’s, London, 8 May 1951, lot 9.
They describe the motif as; - That the dragons are on either side of Mount Penglai, one of the Isles of the Blest. A peach tree springs from its summit bearing a peach inscribed with the character Shou. On either side are the other Isles of the Blest, Fangzhang and Yingzhou.
Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 29.