Lot 3756. A jade 'Bat, boy and drum' group, 17th century; width 5.1 cm., 2 in. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 HKD. Lot sold 75,000 HKD. © Sotheby's

deftly carved in the round as a seated boy leaning on a drum while holding a pair of drum sticks, depicted with a bat hovering with outstretched wings behind the boy's head, the stone of a white colour with dark brown inclusions skilfully picked out to depict the bat and the back of the figure.