A stoutly potted shallow saucer with rounded sides raised on a ring foot. The interior well of the dish painted in doucai enamels with a stag bounding through a fenced garden with a pair of bats flying overhead encircled by an underglaze blue double line border repeated at the rim. The cavetto painted with vignettes of a monkey in a flowering peach tree, a soaring hawk, and a pair of wasps above a garden fence framed by rocks from which issue lingzhi fungus. Together the design of a bird(s) (que), wasps (feng), a monkey (hou), and deer (lu) forms the rebus, Juelu fenghou which expresses a wish for high rank and wealth. The exterior decorated with five lingzhi fungus sprigs between double line borders. On the base within concentric underglaze blue circles is written the apocryphal six character kaishu mark of the 成化帝 Chenghua Emperor.
清代 Qing Dynasty, 康熙 Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Diameter:  6 3/8" (16.2cm)
  Condition:  Excellent, with a small 7/8" (2.2cm) hairline at the rim and some rim abrasion and several frits.
Reference: Terese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, 2006.
Please refer to item #DO-517 when inquiring.