Lot Essay
Compare the example sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 285, which is also illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1983, pl.139
Jan Stuart, Layers of Meaning, in Joined Colors - Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, 1993, p.57, explained that bats and clouds symbolise "vast happiness piled up to sky"
Jan Stuart, Layers of Meaning, in Joined Colors - Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, 1993, p.57, explained that bats and clouds symbolise "vast happiness piled up to sky"