Important Chinese Art

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A blue and white 'peach' moonflask, Seal mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋杏圓開光福壽紋雙耳扁壺 《大清乾隆年製》款

Auction Closed

September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A blue and white 'peach' moonflask

Seal mark and period of Qianlong

清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋杏圓開光福壽紋雙耳扁壺 《大清乾隆年製》款


the flattened circular body rising from a splayed rectangular foot to a waisted neck flanked by a pair of ruyi-form handles, both principal sides molded in low relief with a peach-shaped panel painted in rich cobalt-blue tones with bats hovering over fruiting peach sprays, reserved against a leafy floral scroll ground, the neck with a floral scroll below a band of upright ruyi heads and a lingzhi meander around the mouth rim, the narrow sides with similar floral scrolls, the foot skirted with a classic scroll, the recessed base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue


Height 9⅝ in., 24.4 cm 

Acquired in New York circa the 1990s.


來源

約1990年代購於紐約

This moonflask imitates celebrated porcelains of the early 15th century through both its form and its imitation of the ‘heaped and piled’ underglaze-blue painting technique. 


Qianlong mark and period moonflasks of this type are held in important museum and private collections worldwide. See one in the Nanjing Museum, published in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2004, cat. no. 220; another in Newfields (formerly known as the Indianapolis Museum of Art), Indianapolis, included in the museum’s exhibition Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1983, cat. no. 116; and a third, included in the exhibition Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 66. Further examples include one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th October 2015, lot 3725, and another from the collection of R.I.C. Herridge, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29th November 1978, lot 235.