Lot 3689. A famille-verte 'Bats and Lingzhi' dish, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722), 20.5 cm, 8 in. Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 HKD. Lot sold 1,062,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. 

decorated on the interior with a medallion enclosing six bats soaring amidst curling lingzhi scrolls, encircled by a frieze depicted with further bats amidst lingzhi scrolls repeated on the underside, all decorated in underglaze blue with famille-verte highlights, the foot picked out in gilt with a band of wan symbols against a cobalt-blue ground, the base centred with a gilt-inscribed shou medallion

Note: See a closely related dish, similarly decorated in famille-verte with bats and lingzhi on the interior and a shou character in gilt on the base, included in the exhibition Porcelain Wares from Imperial Kiln in Kangxi Period of Qing Dynasty, Capital Museum, Beijing, 2015-16. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 05 Apr 2017