A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK

细节

A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK
QIANLONG

The flattened body moulded on each side with a peach-form reserve and painted in the fifteenth century style with two bats in flight around a fruiting peach branch, surrounded by lotus meander above a narrow band of classic scroll on the flared, rectangular foot, with a band of lingzhi scroll on the narrow sides repeated below the everted rim, the lotus scroll and trefoil bands on the neck interrupted by the ruyi-shaped handles (traces of original mark visible, now polished) --9 1/2in. (24cm.) high

拍品专文

Comparable examples are in the Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, 1987, Catalogue, p. 65; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Eli Lilly Collection, Catalogue, pl. 116; and the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 66