Importante gourde en porcelaine bleu blanc de style Ming Chine, dynastie Qing, marque et époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

la panse circulaire reposant sur un haut pied évasé et surmontée d'un col tubulaire agrémenté de deux anses mouvementées, à décor d'un médaillon central en relief entouré de huit pétales de lotus peints en bleu cobalt, chacun comprenant un des huit emblèmes bouddhistes bajixiang, les côtés plats ornés d'une bande centrale peinte d'un enroulement de fleurs de lotus et feuilles, le col et le pied délicatement décorés de lingzhi dans des rinceaux feuillagés, le pourtour de la gourde et le col finement soulignés d'une frise de grecques, marque à six caractères en cachet en bleu sous couverte à la base ; fêle de cuisson à l'intérieur du col

A firing crack extending into a glaze crackeling inside the neck (7,5 cm), and a firing crackle in the glaze to the foot otherwise in very good condition.
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Qianlong flasks of this pattern are illustrated in the revised Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 151 from the Idemitsu Museum of Art; in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 5; in the Ohlmer Collection cat., no. 58, in the Roemer Museum, Hildelsheim; by Beurdeley, La Céramique Chinoise, Paris, 2005, no. 138, in the Brundage Collection; and by Macintosh, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, pl. 59. Another was inluded in the Tokyo Exhibition of Far Eastern Blue and White Porcelain, Tokyo, 1977, cat. no. 61.
See a similar moonflask sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1^st December 2010, lot 2826 and another one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8^th April 2010, lot 1802.