A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Painted to each side in cobalt blue tones with eight radiating lotus petal-shaped panels enclosing the bajixiang around a central raised boss with a stylised flowerhead, divided by keyfret and lappet bands, all within a key-fret border, the flat sides with a wide band of leafy scroll issuing lotus blossoms, the neck and foot with bands of lingzhi scroll beneath a keyfret band to the rim, the cylindrical neck flanked by scroll handles
19 1/2 in. (49 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

C.G. Sloan & Co., Washington D.C., February 1981
Greenwald Collection, no. 58

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, Catalogue, no. 58

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Lot Essay

Compare with other examples illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, no. 151; in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 2, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 15; in Chinese Ceramics in The Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1987; and in Qing Porcelain, M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Fribourg, 1987, pl. 154.

Other examples were sold at Christie's New York, 2 June 1989, lot 81 from the Eugene O. Perkins Collection of Qing Porcelain; another moonflask sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1239; and another example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2010, lot 1802.

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