A fine and exceptional blue and white moonflask, Ming dynasty, Yongle period | 明永樂 青花輪花綬帶葫蘆扁瓶
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A fine and exceptional blue and white moonflask,
Ming dynasty, Yongle period
明永樂 青花輪花綬帶葫蘆扁瓶
modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, elegantly potted with a flattened spherical body with two domed sections, each side centred with a yin-yang medallion radiating an eight-pointed starburst, the foliate points interspersed between palmette or ornaments, all within a formal 'half-cash' diaper border around the edge, surmounted by a waisted neck and a small bulb-shaped mouth, collared by a foliate scroll band of aster and carnation, flanked by a pair of gracefully arched handles with terminals similarly adorned with floral sprays, all raised on a low oval foot, the cobalt blue of a brilliant tone with characteristic 'heaping and piling'
29.3 cm
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th May 1990, lot 22.
香港蘇富比1990年5月15日，編號22
Sotheby's Hong Kong – Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 43.
《香港蘇富比二十週年》，香港，1993年，圖版43