MING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

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A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL DOUBLE-GOURD MOON FLASK
MING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
The flattened body decorated on each side with a radiating floriform roundel encircled by lotus scroll, the narrow sides and neck with similar decoration, the curved strap handles terminating in a lotus-decorated ruyi-head terminal, raised on a rectangular foot, all on a turquoise ground
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a similar example of a flask of this shape and with similar decorated symbols, see Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no.189.

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