A KHOTAN WHITE JADE 'BAT' EWER AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY |

worked with a tapering body rising from a splayed foot to a constricted neck and galleried mouth-rim, flanked by a C-shaped handle and a curved spout, the body worked in low relief on each side with a bat in flight and issuing wisps of ruyi clouds, the domed cover surmounted by a circular finial atop a stepped band, the stone of an even white colour with faint icy and grey inclusions, wood stand

S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco, label.