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

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A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The flattened body of the flask is moulded on each side with a peach-form panel painted with two bats in flight around a fruiting peach branch, surrounded by lotus meander above a narrow band of classic scroll on the flared, rectangular foot. The narrow sides are decorated with lingzhi scroll repeated below the everted rim. The lotus scrolls and trefoil bands on the neck are interrupted by ruyi-form handles.
9 3/4 in. (25 cm.) high

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20-21 May 1987, lot 442; Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 1995, lot 665; Christie's Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 603; Christie's New York, 19 March 2009, lot 737

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Lot Essay

An identical piece but bearing a Jiaqing mark is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 162, pl. 148. Two similarly decorated Qianlong-marked moonflasks of comparable size were sold at Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lots 365 and 366.

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