拍品專文
An almost identical dish is illustrated by Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, pl. 86; cf. also Porcelain of the High Qing, The Brian S. McElney Collection, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Catalogue, pl. XXI; and another in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 87; yet another in the Shanghai Museum of Art was included in the exhibition, Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hu, Catalogue, pl. 48.
A further example is illustrated by Bartholomew, 'Botanical Puns in Chinese Art from the Collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco', Orientations, September, 1985, pp. 18-34, fig. 24. The author also explains that the scene depicted invokes the traditional Chinese birthday greeting 'May your happiness be as deep as the Eastern Sea and may you live to be as old as the Southern Mountain'.
Furthermore the Chinese word for bat, fu, is homophonous with the word for happiness; thus the five bats symbolise the five happinesses; old age, wealth, health, love of virtue and a natural death
A further example is illustrated by Bartholomew, 'Botanical Puns in Chinese Art from the Collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco', Orientations, September, 1985, pp. 18-34, fig. 24. The author also explains that the scene depicted invokes the traditional Chinese birthday greeting 'May your happiness be as deep as the Eastern Sea and may you live to be as old as the Southern Mountain'.
Furthermore the Chinese word for bat, fu, is homophonous with the word for happiness; thus the five bats symbolise the five happinesses; old age, wealth, health, love of virtue and a natural death