A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE DISH

A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE DISH
FOUR-CHARACTER SHENDE TANG MARK IN IRON RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)
The shallow dish painted with a scene of Zhong Gui in a landscape clutching his sword in his left hand, his right raised as he looks to his side at two young male attendants releasing bats from a large jardiniére, all beneath a continuous gilt-decorated ruyi-head border, the reverse decorated in iron-red with two dragons amidst flames and clouds, one chasing a pearl, the other looking back at a pearl held in its rear right claw
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam.