AN EXTREMELY RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED MOONFLASK

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AN EXTREMELY RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED MOONFLASK
YONGZHENG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The flattened circular body is moulded on each side with a peach-shaped panel and the waisted neck is applied with a pair of loop handles emerging from and terminating in ruyi heads, all raised on a narrow rounded rectangular foot and covered in an unctuous glaze streaked with purplish-red and lavender tones thinning to brown on the extremities and of a pale blue on the interior of the neck, the base glazed with brown and celadon (crack to handle overpainted)
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high, box

来源

A Japanese private collection

拍品专文

No other moonflask of this shape covered in a monochrome glaze appears to be recorded. The closest comparison is an 18th-century pilgrim's flask of slightly different shape without the moulded peach panels and covered with a flambé glaze, from the British Museum, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1971, pl. C, fig. 1.

The form of the present moonflask is seen more commonly decorated with underglaze-blue designs of bats and peach sprays within the moulded peach panel, such as the example included in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 66.