清十八世紀 白玉五蝠筆擱

finely carved in the round in the form of five bats with outstretched and interlocked wings, with two nuzzling bats on one side and three facing each other on the other, the smoothly polished stone of a fine even white colour highlighted with areas of russet 

There is a tiny chip to the tip of one bat's wing, otherwise the carving is in overall good condition.
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一稍大近例，載於René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé，《Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection》，舊金山，1977年，圖版XLVIII。另有一例，載於Robert P. Youngman，《The Youngman Collection: Chinese Jades From Neolithic to Qing》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版195。