A BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK painted in the Ming style on the flattened sides with a central yinyang symbol radiating eight trefoil petal-shaped lappets, each terminating in a lotus flower, within a band of zig-zag pattern above whorl-pattern at the rectangular foot, the garlic neck painted with two bats between lingzhi and applied with two strap handles terminating in a trefoil above stylised lingzhi, the narrow mouth with a band of pendent trefoils (four extremity chips with old restoration), 18th Century

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A BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK painted in the Ming style on the flattened sides with a central yinyang symbol radiating eight trefoil petal-shaped lappets, each terminating in a lotus flower, within a band of zig-zag pattern above whorl-pattern at the rectangular foot, the garlic neck painted with two bats between lingzhi and applied with two strap handles terminating in a trefoil above stylised lingzhi, the narrow mouth with a band of pendent trefoils (four extremity chips with old restoration), 18th Century
34.5cm. high

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