5. ASSIETTE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC ET ROUGE DE CUIVRE Début de l'époque Kangxi (1662-1722) A RARE BLUE AND WHITE AND COPPER-RED PEACH-SHAPED DISH Early Kangxi period 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. 25.7cm (10 1/8in) diam. 清康熙早期 青花釉裏紅山水人物圖桃式碟 Provenance: Collection of T. Wischmann, Koblenz, acquired from Bernheimer, Munich, on 1 March 1989 來源： 科布倫茨T. Wischmann珍藏，於1989年3月1日得自慕尼黑Bernheimer 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.