A CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND RED CELADON-GROUND 'BATS AND CLOUDS' DISH SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG...

A CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND RED CELADON-GROUND 'BATS AND CLOUDS' DISH

SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95

With a barbed rim, painted all over with bats amidst swirling wisps of blue clouds, the flying animals picked out in red, all reserved on a pale grey-green ground, the dish supported on a tapering foot, with the reign mark in underglaze blue to the base, 39.4cm.