Glass ring box “Bats and peaches”, 20th century

Intense yellow carved glass box with polychrome enameled decorations. Made to keep an archer's ring, it has a cylindrical shape on the inside where the ring is inserted later.

It shows on the outside of the lid, a continuous scene of small orange bats with outstretched wings, fluttering among elongated peach tree branches laden with fleshy fruit. The upper area of the lid features an auspicious character surrounded by five bats. The base shows a thin decorative border of semicircles holding flower petals on a red background. 

Stamped at the base with four characters “乾隆年制”. 

Height: 5 cm; Outer diameter: 4.8 cm

Weight: 142 g