Compare with an identical dish from the Simon Kwan Collection exhibited by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Catalogue, 1985, pl. 39, sold in our Singapore Rooms, The Yangzhitang Collection, 30 March 1997, lot 285.

Jan Stuart, in Joined Colors - Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, 1993, p. 57, explains that red bats and multi-coloured clouds symbolise "vast happiness piled up to the sky".

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