Chinese Gilt Decorated 'Shou' Dish.
Chinese Gilt Decorated 'Shou' Dish. The interior painted in iron-red and gilt with a central stylized shou character surrounded by five bats in flight, the exterior similarly decorated with four further shou medallions, each encircled with bats, all on an archaic scrolling ground, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in iron red. {Diameter: 8 1/8 inches (20.5 cm)}.
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Chinese Gilt Decorated 'Shou' Dish. The interior painted in iron-red and gilt with a central stylized shou character surrounded by five bats in flight, the exterior similarly decorated with four further shou medallions, each encircled with bats, all on an archaic scrolling ground, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in iron red. {Diameter: 8 1/8 inches (20.5 cm)}.