拍品 263
263
A Rare Blue and White Moon Flask
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION 
A Rare Blue and White Moon Flask

QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

细节
A Rare Blue and White Moon Flask
Qianlong seal mark and of the period (1736-1795)
Of oval section, the sides painted with two large five-clawed dragons leaping amidst clouds above a band of waves from which emerge two smaller dragons, with a pair of openwork dragon scroll handles flanking the cylindrical neck below a ruyi collar and everted mouth rim
10 3/8in. (26.3cm.) high

拍品专文

Compare the Qianlong-marked blue and white vase and cover in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, decorated with similar dragons with unusually long muzzles, as well as similarly-rendered clouds and undulating wave band around the base, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1968, Book II, Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, pp. 60-61, pls. 20a-e.

See, also, the Qianlong-marked blue and white jardinière decorated with long-muzzled dragons and similar stylized clouds with white outlines, included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, S. Marchant & Son, London, 11-22 June 1984, no. 27.