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The exterior is delicately decorated and enamelled with twelve bats in flight bearing beribboned double gourds amongst incised green-enamelled scrolling clouds above a lappet band at the foot and ruyi heads at the rim, all reserved on a yellow ground. The interior is covered in a pale yellow glaze. The white glazed base with an apocryphal Yongzheng mark.
Catalogue notes:
Compare the present lot with a Yongzheng example from the collection of Maureen Pilkington sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 April 2017, lot 6.
Compare an almost identical bowl from the Harry G. Steele Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., accession no. 1972.43.46 and published in Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia, "Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue." Washington, D.C., 1998, p. 208.
Origin: China
Period: Yongzheng mark and possibly the period (1723-1735)
Sizes: 15.20 cm. diameter
5.98 in. diameter