Property of The Newark Museum of Art, Sold to Support Museum Collections
A rare doucai 'Shou and peach' dish, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period
Auction Closed
March 19, 05:41 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the base with a three-character Haorantang mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 10 in., 25.4 cm
Collection of Herman A. E. (d. 1951) and Paul C. (d. 1951) Jaehne.
Gifted to The Newark Museum, Newark, in 1941 (accession
no. 41.983B).
Dishes with this doucai design, with peach trees artfully twisted into 'Shou' character motifs, were popular from the late Ming dynasty all the way up through the late Qing; see a Jiajing marked dish with a very similar design in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing. illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 38 p. 19, cat. no. 18. Kangxi-period dishes of this design with the Haoran Tang mark, however, are exceedingly rare; a very closely related example bearing the Haoran Tang mark is in the collection of the Musée Guimet, Paris, at this time apparently unpublished. By the Qianlong period and later, the Shou-form tree becomes notably more angular than in the Jiajing marked example and the present dish.