AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER RED 'DRAGON' MOONFLASK

细节
AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER RED 'DRAGON' MOONFLASK
QIANLONG

Painted in an attractive copper-red tone on each side of the flattened circular body with a fully frontal dragon leaping and encircling a 'flaming pearl', its eyes depicted in underglaze blue on a white ground with scattered clouds above and around the base a broad border of stylized crested waves, all in underglaze blue, the cylindrical neck embellished with clouds on either side and supported from the shoulders by two loop handles decorated with formal scrolls (restored, mark erased)
15 3/8in. (39.1cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. a flask of similar size in the Hong Kong Museum of Art which was included and illustrated in the Wonders of the Potter's Palette Exhibition, Catalogue, no. 66.; there is also one 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.

More common however are smaller moonflasks of this type cf. the example 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 Jenyas, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XCIV, fig. 1. Compare also the flask from the Edward T. Chow Collection, of similar size but with the same decoration on a lime-green enamel ground, and illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl. 162, and another sold in our New York Rooms, 29 November 1990, lot 250