Lot 1950. A famille-rose 'Hundred-bats' bottle vase, mark and period of Xuantong (1909-1911); 39.5 cm., 15 1/2 in. Est. 80,000 — 100,000 HKD. Lot Sold 375,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's 2010

the globular body painted with numerous iron-red bats in flight amongst swirling multi-coloured clouds above a band of lappets encircling the base, a raised gilt fillet encircling the shoulder with a border of lotus blooms borne on foliate stems interspersed with shou characters above, the waisted neck with further bats amongst clouds and with a ruyi band about the flared mouth.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13th November 1990, lot 321.

Note: A Xuantong vase of this pattern is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 144..

 Sotheby's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS & WORKS OF ART, Hong Kong, 08 Apr 2010