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fig.1 A blue and white moonflask, bianhu, Qianlong seal mark
and period; © The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong

The Property of a Lady 女士藏品

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A magnificent rare blue and white moonflask, bianhu
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
The smoothly rounded body superbly painted in bright underglaze blue
with Ming-style ‘heaping and piling’ with elegantly-spaced floral scrolls
variously composed of fully-blooming lotus, peony, chrysanthemum,
hibiscus and other blossoms amid foliate scrolls issuing a single vine leaf
on each side above the foot, all beneath a band of pendent ruyi-head
at the base of the tapering neck painted with two fully blossoming lotus
on foliate scrolls each flanked by elephant-head handles modelled with
long curving trunks and lingzhi sprays in the mouths, beneath a band of
lingzhi fungus scroll at the rim.
45.6cm (17¾in) high
£150,000 - 250,000
HK$1,800,000 - 2,900,000 CNY1,400,000 - 2,400,000

清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋雙象耳寶月瓶 青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款

Provenance: an English private collection, acquired by the owner’s
grandfather, in the late 19th or early 20th century and thence by descent
within the family

來源：英國私人收藏，於十九世紀晚期或二十世紀早期由藏家祖父購
得，並由家族繼承下去

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