A fine Guan-type Moon flask Qing Dynasty, 18th Century

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 HKD

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Description

of flattened almost circular shape with full rounded sides, joined to the shoulder by two triple-arched loop handles, covered overall with a thick bluish-grey glaze suffused with a sparse brown crackle

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark.
Sotheby's London, 25th March 1975, lot 107.
Collection of Su Lin An.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31st October 1995, lot 326.

Exhibited

Arts de la Chine Ancienne, Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1937, cat.no.495.
Exhibition of Chinese Art for Chinese Medical Research, London 1938.