Lot 2080. A pair of famille-rose 'hundred bats' vases, marks and period of Guangxu (1875-1908); 32.8 cm., 12 7/8 in. Estimate 450,000 — 400,000 HKD (43,383 — 62,664 EUR). Lot Sold 560,000 HKD (53,987 EUR). Courtesy Sotheby's. 

each potted with a compressed globular body gently rising to a slightly tapered neck, densely painted on the exterior with iron-red bats in flight, hovering amongst multicolour swirling clouds, all between a pendant ruyi-head band at the mouth and a border of upright stylised lappets around the foot, the countersunk base inscribed in iron red with a six-character reign mark.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th April 1991, lot 116.