AN IRON-RED AND ANHUA-DECORATED ‘HUNDRED BATS BIRTHDAY’ DISH

Lot 3028
30.05.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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HKD 600 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 3028 | AN IRON-RED AND ANHUA-DECORATED ‘HUNDRED BATS BIRTHDAY’ DISH
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HKD 600 000 – 800 000
AN IRON-RED AND ANHUA-DECORATED ‘HUNDRED BATS BIRTHDAY’ DISH

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The flat, everted rim is decorated in iron-red with a ‘hundred bats’ border. The interior has thread-relief characters reading hong fu qi tian, which may be translated as “happiness as vast as heaven”.

7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) diam.





Provenance

Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 22 May 1986, lot 74

The Meiyintang collection, no. 786



Literature

R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 786
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