An extremely rare and large blue and white 'bajixiang' dish

Qianlong seal mark and period

清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮八吉祥紋大盤

《大清乾隆年製》款

robustly potted with shallow curved sides supported on a tapered foot rising to a flat rim, vividly painted in the center with a stylized lotus enclosed by flying bats and florets, the cavetto decorated with beribboned 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' above lotus blossom scrolls, all within a continuous band of cresting waves at the rim, the reverse with further bats swooping above turbulent waves crashing against rocks, the countersunk base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Diameter 17 ? in., 43.9 cm

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th April 1992, lot 139.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th April 2011, lot 3131.

來源

香港蘇富比1992年4月29日，編號139

香港蘇富比2011年4月8日，編號3131