Shunga-Okimono Bat on Peach, Japan, Edo period (1603-1868), c. 1800, polished boxwood carving, an auspicious bat has settled on a round, ripe peach, symbolising long life, and is embracing the peach fruit with its leaves, the typical incision on the underside of which probably alludes discreetly to the female vulva, 5x4,2x4,1cm