A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK, each side painted around a central boss in strong blue tones with a stylised 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 painted with a lingzi-scroll and with a key-fret band at the rim, each shoulder with a scroll handle,

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK, each side painted around a central boss in strong blue tones with a stylised 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 painted with a lingzi-scroll and with a key-fret band at the rim, each shoulder with a scroll handle,

Qianlong seal mark and of the period
49.5cm. high

Lot Essay

For similar examples 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 in our New York Rooms, 2 June 1989, The Eugene O. Perkins Collection of Qing Porcelain, lot 81; in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 662 and 31 March 1992, lot 605; and in these Rooms, 7 December 1992, lot 53 and 7 June 1993, lot 81

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