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

It is exceedingly rare to find vessels solely decorated with pink enamel, such as the present lot. A slightly smaller, similarly shaped, flask in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is decorated depicting overglaze pink dragons but with the addition of underglaze blue clouds, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 36, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 254, no. 232. See also the large pink-enamelled blue and white moonflask, Qianlong six-character sealmark and of the period (1736-1795), sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2968, where the rendering of the feathers on the phoenix is particularly similar to the current lot.