A RARE PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED DISH QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the shallow rounded sides with lipped rim resting on a footrim of narrow wedge-shaped section, covered overall with a copper-red glaze of a mottled grayish-pink suffused in the center with pale green flecking, the white-glazed base with a six-character apocryphal Xuande mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Collection of Henry Payne Bingham (1887-1952), New York.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, 1980s.

There is a large consolidated U-form crack extending from the rim into the cavetto, and a tiny chip to the rim. The foot has some minute nicks, and overall with characteristic firing imperfections.
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Henry Payne Bingham built a large and important art collection. He was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York to which he left several paintings and other works of art.