Each of these bowls is reserved in underglaze copper red with five bats (wufu) on a pale even celadon ground both inside and out. The undersides have the Yongzheng six-character marks within double circles. Wufu (five bats) is for happiness, the Five Blessings.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 122

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from John Sparks, 12 April 1960 (£315)

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2