A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK

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A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The flattened body moulded on each side with a peach-form panel painted in fifteenth-century style with two bats in flight around a fruiting peach branch, surrounded by lotus meander above a narrow band of classic scroll on the flared, rectangular foot, with a band of lingzhi scroll on the narrow sides repeated below the everted rim, the lotus scroll and trefoil bands on the neck interrupted by the ruyi handles (restored rim chips and associated hairline)
9 3/4 in. (25 cm.) high

Provenance

Highly Important Blue and White Porcelain and Hardstone Carvings from a Private Collection, sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 665.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, May 1987, lot 442.

Comparable examples are illustrated in the Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, 1987, Catalogue, p. 65; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Eli Lilly Collection, Catalogue, pl. 116; and the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 66.

(US$10,000-13,000)

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