Lot 3311.  A fine and rare famille rose stem dish,Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue in a line and of the period (1736-1795); 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000. Price realised HKD 375,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2014.

The dish is finely decorated on the interior with a central iron-red Shou medallion within a band of dense scrolling foliage below five iron-red bats.The base is decorated with a band of composite lotus panels and ruyi-heads above the spreading foot with overlapping leaves suspending tassels, box. 

Note: A very similar example in the Nanjing Museum was included in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no 91. A similar stem dish was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 660; and another from the Edward T. Chow collection, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 172.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 26 November 2014