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AN OUTSTANDING AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘ROSETTE’
MOONFLASK, BIANHU

MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

明永樂 青花寶相花紋綬帶葫蘆扁壺

modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, the flattened 來源：
spherical body rising to a waisted neck and a small bulb- 倫敦蘇富比1978年12月12日，編號380
shaped mouth, set with two elegantly arched strap handles
ending in a leaf-shaped terminal, freely painted in deep tones
of cobalt accented with ‘heaping and piling’, the domed
circular front and back with a formal rosette centred by a yin-
yang medallion within a ring of petal lappets, surrounded by
a radiating eight-pointed starburst of alternating foliate and
floral motifs, the larger leaves dotted at the apex, all within a
formal ‘half-cash’ diaper border around the edge, the upper
bulb picked out with a narrow band of asters and carnations
between double-line borders repeated at the rim and a single
fillet collaring the neck, the handles outlined with double lines
and decorated with a spray of lotus at the terminus, above two
blue lines running down the narrow sides, covered overall with
a glossy glaze of fine, smooth texture, the low rounded square
foot ring left unglazed
31.5 cm, 12½ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 12th December 1978, lot 380.

HK$ 7,000,000-9,000,000
US$ 895,000-1,150,000