Lot 238
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A Very Rare Blue and White Garlic-Head Moonflask
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT CHANG
A Very Rare Blue and White Garlic-Head Moonflask

QIANLONG

Details
A Very Rare Blue and White Garlic-Head Moonflask
Qianlong
Each side of the flattened circular body painted with a composite floral scroll encircled by a classic scroll border, the narrow sides painted with a continuous lingzhi vine, the cupped mouth with a saw-tooth band above the floral meander band, repeated on the pair of handles terminating in a ruyi panel enclosing a single lotus bloom, the rectangular base unglazed
12in. (30.5cm.) high, box
Provenance
Christie's, Hong Kong, 29 September 1992, Lot 508.
Exhibited
London, Christie's, Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2 - 14 June 1993, no. 83.

Lot Essay

No other eighteenth century moonflask with this decoration appears to have been published.

For examples of fifteenth century prototypes, see the two garlic-headed moonflasks in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1963, Book II, Part 1, pp. 38-41, pls. 9-10c.

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