74. PAIRE D'ASSIETTES EN PORCELAINE À DÉCOR ROUGE DE FER Marques et époque Guangxu (1875-1908) A PAIR OF IRON RED-DECORATED 'BAT' DISHES Guangxu six-character marks and of the period Each dish finely painted to the interior and exterior in iron-red and gilt with bats in flight, the bases with a six-character mark in iron-red. Each 15cm (5 7/8in) diam. (2). 清光緒 礬紅彩蝠紋盤一對 「大清光緒年製」款 Provenance: Collection of Georg Weishaupt (1906-2004), Berlin, acquired from Sotheby's London in the 1980s (by repute) Published: Georg Weishaupt, The Great Fortune - Chinese and Japanese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries and their Forerunners from the Weishaupt Collection, Stuttgart, 2002, no. 364. 來源： 柏林Georg Weishaupt（1906-2004）珍藏 於1980年代得自倫敦蘇富比（傳） 出版： Georg Weishaupt，《The Great Fortune - Chinese and Japanese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries and their Forerunners from the Weishaupt Collection》，斯圖加特，2002年，編號364 According to Ronald W. Longsdorf, 'The Imperial Tongzhi Porcelain', Orientations, October 1996, p. 72, the design of the present dishes is one of the thirteen designs produced for the wedding celebration of the Empress Dowager's son, the Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun. The wedding was of unique historical significance as it was the first Imperial wedding since that of the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722), as all succeeding emperors were already married by the time they ascended the throne.