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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA BRAME STORY
See two closely related examples, one in the Victoria and
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEACH’ MOONFLASK A BLUE AND WHITE ‘PHOENIX AND DRAGON’ Albert Museum, London, (acc. no. 598A-1907), and the other
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG BOWL in the Koger Collection, illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese
Ceramics: The Koger Collection, New York, 1985, pl. 95.
the flattened circular body rising from a splayed rectangular MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG See also a similarly decorated doucai example, sold in our
foot to a waisted neck flanked by a pair of ruyi-form handles, the deep rounded sides divided into four lobes, rising from London rooms, 6th November 2013, lot 175.
both principal sides molded in low relief with a peach-shaped a straight foot to an everted rim, the exterior painted with
panel painted in rich cobalt-blue tones with bats hovering four panels variously enclosing dragons in pursuit of a $ 40,000-60,000
over fruiting peach sprays, reserved against a leafy floral ‘flaming pearl’ and phoenix in flight amidst scrolling clouds,
scroll ground, the neck with a floral scroll below a band of the interior similarly decorated with a central quatrefoil 清雍正 青花龍鳳呈祥紋花式盌
upright ruyi heads and a lingzhi meander around the mouth medallion enclosing a phoenix amongst clouds, the rim
rim, the narrow sides with similar floral scrolls, the foot encircled on both sides by a band of crashing waves with 《大清雍正年製》款
skirted with a classic scroll, the recessed base with a six- florets, the foot with a band of scrolls, the base with a six-
character seal mark in underglaze blue character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue 來源：
Height 9⅝ in., 24.4 cm Diameter 7⅝ in., 19.4 cm 蘇富比 Parke Bernet，紐約，1975年3月12至13日，編
號374
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Acquired in New York circa the 1990s. Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 12th-13th March 1975, lot
This moonflask imitates celebrated porcelains of the early 374.
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.
$ 40,000-60,000
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
來源：
約1990年代購於紐約

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