A RARE WHITE-GLAZED INCISED SOFT PASTE MOONFLASK

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED INCISED SOFT PASTE MOONFLASK
18th Century
Of characteristic compressed spherical shape on a short base and surmounted by a cylindrical neck flanked by two dragon handles, each side delicately incised with a full-frontal five-clawed dragon surrounding a flaming pearl amid fire-scrolls, all under a widely crackled white glaze stopping neatly around the foot
6.5/8in. (16.8cm.) high
Provenance
Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, New York
Parke Bernet, 10 October 1962 (sale 2129)
C.T. Loo, 1963