A fine and very rare iron-red 'bat' dish mark and period of Yongzheng

finely potted with shallow curved sides rising to a wide everted rim and supported by a short foot, decorated to the interior in anhua technique with a central shou character roundel encircled by two five clawed dragons in mutual pursuit amid cloud scrolls, within a double line border, finely enamelled to the rim in vibrant iron-red with a border of bats, the base inscribed with the six-character mark in underglaze-blue within a double circle   

Christie's Hong Kong, 28th October 2002, lot 731.