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拍品专文
The shape of these large Qianlong flasks is based on Ming dynasty fifteenth century prototypes, which had a convex side that was decorated and a flat unglazed back with a countersunk medallion in the centre. For a Yongle (1403-24) example see the flask in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, vol. 9, 1981, no. 94. These fifteenth century blue and white porcelain flasks were themselves based on silver-inlaid brass prototypes.
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 similar examples were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, May 2006, lot 1239; another moonflask sold at Christie's Hong Kong, December 2010, lot 2826, from the Greenwald Collection; and another example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, April 2010, lot 1802.
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 similar examples were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, May 2006, lot 1239; another moonflask sold at Christie's Hong Kong, December 2010, lot 2826, from the Greenwald Collection; and another example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, April 2010, lot 1802.