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The present blue and white moonflask is extremely rare and only one other
example of the same form and decoration, but slightly smaller, appears
to have been published; see Yang Boda, The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese
Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no.74 (see fig.1 opposite),
previously sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong on 30 April 1996, lot 431.
The moonflask is inspired in form and decoration by early Ming Dynasty
examples; for a Xuande-period example in the Qing Court Collection, see
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White
Porcelain with Underglaze Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, pl.98. A similarly
painted blue and yellow glazed moonflask with the

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