A pair of famille rose yellow-ground dishes, China, iron-red Jiaqing six-caracter seal marks and period. Photo Nagel Auktionen

The exterior of each dish is finely enamelled with four cartouches containing characters for the greeting wan shou wu jiang, 'boundless longevity'. The cartouches are surrounded by lotus flowers on leafy scrolls, supporting the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang. The interior of each dish is painted with five bats in flight encircling a stylised shou character - Very minor wear to enamels, one dish with small a glaze chip above the stand. D. 15,4 cm. Estimate 40 000/60 000 €

Property from an old German private collection, bought from Vanderven in the 1980'ies 

Nagel Auktionen. 2013/05/08. http://www.auction.de/