Each with shallow rounded sides over a short tapered foot, the interior with five iron-red bats amid inky cobalt clouds, the exterior with three underglaze blue bats flying upward toward the rim, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue Diameter 14.7 cm.
Firingspot.
Property of a private Swedish collector, long term member of the Swedish Oriental Ceramics Society, who started to collect in the early 1980's.
Compare with a similar pair sold at Sothebys: Asian Art, 18 March 2017 • New York. Lot 1004.