A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK, painted to each side in rich cobalt-blue with eight panels, each enclosing one of the ba jixiang radiating from a slightly-raised boss centred by a stylized flower-head and divided by key-fret and lappet bands, all within a key-fret border, the flat sides painted with a narrow band of leafy scrolls issuing blossoms, the neck and foot each painted with a lingzhi scroll and with a key-fret band at the rim, each shoulder moulded with a scroll handle (minutely fritted), Qianlong seal mark and of the period

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK, painted to each side in rich cobalt-blue with eight panels, each enclosing one of the ba jixiang radiating from a slightly-raised boss centred by a stylized flower-head and divided by key-fret and lappet bands, all within a key-fret border, the flat sides painted with a narrow band of leafy scrolls issuing blossoms, the neck and foot each painted with a lingzhi scroll and with a key-fret band at the rim, each shoulder moulded with a scroll handle (minutely fritted), Qianlong seal mark and of the period
49.5cm. high

拍品專文

For a similar example see Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan series, vol.15, no. 151; Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl.15; Idemitsu Museum, 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no.964; Beurdeley, La Ceramique Chinoise, no.138; Ohlmer Collection, Catalogue, no.58, in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim; Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl.154, from the E.T.Chow Collection; and Osgood, Blue and White Chinese Porcelain, pl.48

Other examples were sold at Christie's New York, 2 June 1989, The Eugene O. Perkins Collection of Qing Porcelain, lot 81; in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 662, 31 March 1992, lot 605; and in these Rooms, 7 December 1992, lot 53