Lot 3527
3527
A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED DECORATED 'BATS' BOWL
A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED DECORATED 'BATS' BOWL
A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED DECORATED 'BATS' BOWL
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A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED DECORATED 'BATS' BOWL

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED DECORATED 'BATS' BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Strongly potted with wide flaring sides, decorated around the exterior in a dark copper-red tone with five bats, wufu, four on the exterior and one on the interior with a single bat at the centre, captured in differing poses of mid-flight under the pale bluish glaze
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Emerie et Cie, Paris
Alexandre Gaiguerau de Moralle
Acquired from a private collection, Paris

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Lot Essay

The five bats, wufu, are a homophone for the 'Five Blessings', which are long life, wealth, health, love of virtue and a good end to one's life. The pattern was one of the designs on porcelain supplied to the Court listed in 1729 by Tang Ying, director of the imperial porcelain factory during the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns, and translated by S. Bushell in Oriental Ceramic Art, London, 1981, p. 198.

There are several examples of this pattern published. The Baur Collection has a bowl with the 'five bats' motif, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 199; and another example was sold at Christie's London, 15 June 1998, lot 164.

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