Description
A shallow dish above foot rim curving to steelpy rising sides. The dish is decorated with a number of bats in iron red. The white glazed base bears an overglaze iron red Tongzhi mark and of the period.
The patternis also seen on a yellow ground narcciss bowl with Tongzhi mark can be found in book The Dragons Treasure.
A pair of Tongzhi mark and period bowls of the same pattern were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong Dec. 2016
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/chinese-art-hk0681/lot.805.html
Condition
With hard to see hairline to rim.
Size
6" (15.5cm)
Reference: 0001051