A LARGE FAMILLE-ROSE 'KINGFISHER' DISH QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD

well-potted with steeply rounded sides, the center painted in overglaze enamels with a vibrantly colored kingfisher perched on a peony bough issuing two full blooms, buds and leaves, the cavetto with three sets of fluttering butterflies between pairs of concentric circles in underglaze blue, the exterior with eight soaring iron-red bats, apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Private European Collection.

There is a small glaze flake and two iron spots to the rim. There is a 1 in. (2.5 cm) long firing tear to the base, some minor loss and some retouching to the enamel.
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