The interior delicately painted in iron-red with five bats, their wings outstretched and arranged in a circle, the cavetto skillfully painted with twelve bats variously in flight, between unglazed blue borders ofdouble-circles, the reverse similarly decorated with eight bats. The base with six-character Guangxu seal. D: 15.1 cm. Provenance: Lots 68-84, Chinese porcelain from the Estate of Sear Hang Hwie Pao (1937-2009). Mr. Pao was one of Toronto's most important dealers of Chinese porcelain and works of art. His antique store, Pao & Moltke Ltd., was a fixture in Toronto's trendy Yorkville area for over thirty years.