A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
The flattened body molded on each side with a peach-form reserve and painted in fifteenth century style with two bats in flight around a fruiting peach branch, surrounded by lotus meander above a narrow band of classic scroll on the flared, rectangular foot, with a band of lingzhi scroll on the narrow sides repeated below the everted rim, the lotus scroll and trefoil bands on the neck interrupted by the ruyi sceptre handles--9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high

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Comparable examples are in The Exhibiton of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, 1987, Catalogue, p. 65, the Indianoplis Museum of Art, the Eli Lilly Collection, Catalogue, pl. 116; and the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 66