A famille rose porcelain 'Bats' snuff bottle, Jingdezhen kilns, 1790-1880. Estimate $6,500 - $8,500 - Price Realized $8,125 . Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The pear-shaped bottle is decorated with iron-red bats in flight amidst multi-colored clouds, and with five bats (wufu) encircling the seal mark on the rounded base. The base has a Qianlong four-character seal mark in iron red. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance: Bernice Straus Hasterlik Collection; Sotheby's New York, 17 September 1996, lot 126.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2274..

Exhibited: Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

Christie's. THE RUTH AND CARL BARRON COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES: PART I, 16 September 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza