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AN OUTSTANDING, FINE AND RARE COPPER-RED
MOONFLASK

SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

清乾隆 釉裏紅蓮花錦紋如意耳扁壺

《大清乾隆年製》款

modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, generously 來源：
potted with a flattened spherical body set with two circular 倫敦蘇富比1974年7月9日，編號278
bosses at the sides, rising to a garlic neck flanked by a pair 倫敦 Bluett & Sons
of angular strap handles with ruyi-shaped terminals on the 倫敦埃斯卡納齊
shoulders, all supported on a stepped foot of circular form, the
front and back domed faces finely painted in rich copper-red
tones with geometric panels, the centre with a lotus bloom
borne on radiating leafy tendrils within a star-shaped panel,
surrounded by six indented eight-sided panels enclosing
geometric floral sprays, all encircled by six hexagonal panels
of stylised flowerheads alternating with similar elongated
panels of interlaced lozenges, the outer border with shaped
panels enclosing stylised floral sprays forming the corners of
a large hexagon, interspersed with pairs of narrow panels of
flower scrolls, all divided by double line borders, the narrow
sides of the flask decorated with detached floral sprays
interrupted by flower heads on the raised bosses, the neck
collared by a band of stylised floral sprays, below a garlic-form
mouth painted with ruyi-shaped lappets enclosing stylised
florets, the foot skirted with pendent trefoil spearheads above
a band of small scrolls, the glazed concave centre of the base
inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue,
wood stand
17.5 cm, 6⅞ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 9th July 1974, lot 278.
Bluett & Sons, London.
Eskenazi Ltd, London.

HK$ 2,500,000-3,500,000
US$ 319,000-446,000

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