Lot 904
904
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE FLASK, BIANHU
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE FLASK, BIANHU
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE FLASK, BIANHU
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The Ai Lian Tang Collection
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE FLASK, BIANHU

YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

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AN EXTREMELY RARE AND MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE FLASK, BIANHU
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)
9 5⁄8 in. (24.2 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Eskenazi Ltd., London
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21 May 1979, lot 39
Chang Foundation, Taipei, acquired before 1990
Literature
Chang Foundation, Selected Chinese Ceramic from Han to Qing Dynasty, Taipei, pp. 202-203, no. 82
Sotheby’s, Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 70, no. 46
Chang Foundation, Treasures from the Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996, p. 10, no. 12
Eskenazi Ltd., A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, pp. 316-317, no. 347 (left)
Exhibited
Beijing, National Museum of Chinese History, Treasures from the Chang Foundation, 5 May- 5 July 1996, cat. no. 12

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Lot Essay

Only two other related examples appear to have come to the auction market- one from the Reach Family Collection (mentioned in the scholar essay), which may form the pair to the present lot; and another formerly in the collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-1969), sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2016, lot 17 (price realized HKD110,520,000).

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