Qianlong seal marks and of the period|Comprising a pair of dishes, each painted to the interior and exterior in vivid colours with large lotus flower heads interspersed with five swooping bats, all issued on a dense ground of leafy foliage reserved on a bright yellow ground, each 16.2cm (6 3/8in) diam.; together with a pair of small square cups, 18th century, with indented corners supported on four bracket feet, the sloping sides decorated with portraits of European gentlemen and ladies, alternated with cartouches enclosing floral sprigs, all reserved on a yellow diaper ground, each 3.5cm (1 1/4in) high, boxes. (6).|清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯五福拱蓮盤 一對藍彩「大清乾隆年製」篆書款Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent來源： 英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今Compare a similar painted enamel dish, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, similarly decorated with five bats amidst scrolling foliage reserved on a yellow ground, illustrated in Inaugural Exhibition vol.2, Chinese Metalwares and Decorative Arts, Bath, 1993, p.120, no.313. Another similar example of a yellow painted enamel dish with five bats, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, is illustrated in Ming and Qing Chinese Arts from the C.P.Lin Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, p.349, no.215.