AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED 'DRAGON' MOONFLASK

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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED 'DRAGON' MOONFLASK
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted in an attractive rich copper-red tone on each side of the flattenend circular body with a fully frontal dragon leaping and encircling a 'flaming pearl', the eyes picked out in blue, reserved on a white ground with scattered clouds in underglaze-blue above the base encircled by a broad border of stylized crested waves, the cylindrical neck embellished with clouds on either side and and supported from the shoulders by two loop handles decorated with formal scrolls (restored rim chip and rim glaze frits, hairline below neck)
12 1/4in. (31cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Cf. a flask of similar size of this type from the Norton Collection sold in London, 5 November 1960, lot 200, now in the art Gallery of New South Wales, and included in their Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, 1965, Catalogue, no. 116, and another from the Reitlinger Collection illustrated by Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XCIV, fig. 1; and to another vase of this size sold in our New York Rooms, 29 November 1990, lot 250.

A larger moonflask of this type in the Hong Kong Museum of Art was included in the Exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Catalogue, no. 66; another is illustrated by Mareband in the article, 'Some Interesting Pieces of Marked Ch'ing Porcelain', H.K.O.C.S. Bulletin, no. 3, 1977-78, figs. 50-53; another example is shown in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, no. 84.

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