An extremely rare early 18th century Chinese taste enameled porcelain dish, delicately potted and finely enameled around the center with two recumbent spotted deer and two iron-red bats in flight, the exterior and base glazed white and bearing a Buddhist emblem within doubled-circles in underglazed-blue.

REFERENCE : The design of a pair of spotted deer and bats on the present dish is very rare, and reference to similar design articles can be found in a pair of wine cups and a small size saucer dish sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong auctions in 1993, where both items bearing the Yongzheng reign marks and of the period (see last image).

DATE : Chinese, Qing Dynasty, early 18th century, Kangxi / Yongzheng.

MARK : underglazed-blue Buddhist emblem within doubled-circles on base.

SIZE : approximately 7 7/8" (20 cm) diameter.

CONDITION : a few small filled in rim chips with two associated short hairlines, together with another very faint hairline to rim (see images), it still rings like a bell. No other damages or repair noted.

SHIPPING : Inclusive.