Lot Essay
Compare with the 'double peach' group, also decorated with small bats at the side, exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Carvings, 1983, Catalogue, no. 195
18TH CENTURY
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A MOTTLED GREENISH-GREY JADE 'PEACHES AND BATS' GROUP
18th century
Freely carved as a small and large peach of slightly flattened form, supported by and issuing from leafy branches curling up the sides beneath two bats in flight
3½ in. long
18th century
Freely carved as a small and large peach of slightly flattened form, supported by and issuing from leafy branches curling up the sides beneath two bats in flight
3½ in. long