A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK

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

Painted to each side in rich colbalt-blue with eight panels, each enclosing one of the ba jixiang radiating from a slightly-raised boss centred by a stylized flower-head and divided by key-fret and lappet bands, all within a key-fret border, the flat sides painted with a narrow band of leafy scrolls issuing blossoms, the neck and foot each painted with a lingzhi scroll and with a key-fret band at the rim, each shoulder moulded with a scroll handle--19¼in. (49.2cm.) high

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For a similar example see Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shugakukan series, vol. 15, no. 151; Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl 15; Idemitsu Museum, 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no. 964; Beurdeley, La Ceramique Chinoise, no. 138; Ohlmer Collection, Catalogue, no. 58, in the Roemer Museum, Hildersheim; Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain pl. 154, from the E. T. Chow Collection; and Osgood, Blue and White Chinese Porcelain, pl. 48

Other examples were sold at Christie's New York, 2 June 1989, The Eugene O. Perkins Collection of Qing Porcelain, lot 81; and in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 662

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