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A PAIR OF IRON-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE 'BATS' The depiction of bats in iron-red provides a rebus for vast good fortune, as
DISHES the character for 'bats', fu, is a homonym for 'fortune' while the character
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE for red, hong, is a homonym for ‘vast’. It appears that dishes of this pattern
AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850) continued in production from the Qianlong (1736-1795) to the Guangxu
Each dish is fnely enamelled to the interior with fve iron-red bats surrounded (1875-1908) period. Compare a Yongzheng example with a shou character in
by a band of further bats in the well. The exterior is similarly decorated with the centre, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1354.
bats above a band of underglaze-blue keyfret around the foot.
6 in. (15.4 cm.) diam. (2)
清道光 青花礬紅彩洪福齊天盤一對 六字篆書款
£15,000-20,000 US$20,000-26,000
€18,000-23,000

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