Lot 1483
1483
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD MOONFLASK
PROPERTY FROM THE CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE COLLECTIONS FUND
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD MOONFLASK

18TH CENTURY

Details
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD MOONFLASK
18TH CENTURY
Raised on a rectangular foot, the vase is painted in fifteenth century style on one convex side with a leafy branch bearing five peaches, and on the reverse with a branch of five pomegranates, each branch with a sprig of lingzhi at its base. There are flower sprigs on the narrow sides beneath the arched, blue strap handles, that flank further flower sprigs on the garlic-shaped neck.
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Property of Mrs. William B. Leeds; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 11-12 November 1938, lot 198.
Lewis N. Cotlow (1898-1987) Collection, New York and Florida.

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Lot Essay

The form of this moonflask is based on early Ming dynasty prototypes, such as two fifteenth century examples in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, Part 1, Hong Kong, 1963, pp. 38-41, pls. 9-10c. See, also, two eighteenth-century moonflasks of the same shape, one with a fruiting pomegranate tree on one side and in flower on the reverse, sold in these rooms, 23 March 2012, lot 2013, the other with pomegranates on one side and lychees on the other, 19 September 2007, lot 289.

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