Details
4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Property of an Asian collector
Sold at Christie’s London, 10 June 1996, lot 124
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Lot Essay

The auspicious scene of five bats, wufu, and peach tree painted on the interior shows the traditional Chinese birthday greeting: “May your happiness be boundless as the eastern sea, and may you live as old as southern mountain.”
Compare with a similar example in the Shanghai Museum of Art, illustrated in the Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, p.82, no.48.

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