Lot 365
365
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER SAUNDERSON
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK

QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each side molded with a peach-shaped reserve painted with two bats hovering around a fruiting peach branch, within an outer field of leafy foliate scroll, the narrow sides decorated with lingzhi scroll, repeated below the everted rim of the waisted neck above ruyi and lotus scroll bands interrupted by the pair of angled handles issuing from and terminating in a ruyi head, the spreading rectangular foot encircled by classic scroll, all painted in fifteenth century 'heaping and piling' technique
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Frank Caro, Successor to C.T. Loo, New York.

Lot Essay

Compare a similar example with Qianlong mark and of the period, illustrated by Y. Mino and J. Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1983, pp. 284-5, pl. 16, and another included in the exhibition Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, no. 66.

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