QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD MOONFLASK
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
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 meander, 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
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Christie's, Hong Kong, 29 September 1992, lot 508.
The Robert Chang Collection; Christie's, New York, 20 March 2001, lot 238.

Exhibited

London, Christie's, Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, no. 83.

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Lot Essay

For examples of fifteenth century prototypes, see the two garlic-headed moonflasks in the collection of the National Palace Musuem, 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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