A rare blue and white crescent-shaped flask, Ming dynasty, 15th/16th century | 明十五 /十六世紀 青花纏枝花卉紋酒壺

A rare blue and white crescent-shaped flask

Ming dynasty, 15th/16th century

明十五 /十六世紀 青花纏枝花卉紋酒壺

the crescent-shaped body rising to rosette terminals, applied with a central cylindrical ringed neck with a bulbous mouth and a small cylindrical spout to the side, all supported on four low ruyi-shaped feet, painted with two bands of leafy foliate meander divided by a raised U-form rib and a narrow chevron border, the sides with a floral spray rising from waves, the base unglazed 

Width 20.3 cm, 8 in.