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42 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 14 MARCH 2017 MING: THE INTERVENTION OF IMPERIAL TASTE

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT
BLUE AND WHITE MOON FLASK
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

elegantly potted, the full-bodied swelling ask with a 1940 291
attened globular body of elongated section, surmounted 1950

by a slender cylindrical neck anked by two scroll handles 2005 11 9
and resting on a slightly concave at base, exquisitely
painted on either side of the body with masterful 2012 2015
arrangements of blossoming owers, with carnations on
one side and asters on the other, all between lotus-lappet China without Dragons. An Exhibition of the
borders encircling the foot and shoulder, the neck with a
band of over-lapping lappets, the handles with small orets Oriental Ceramic Society Orientations 47
and a scroll outlining the sides, the unglazed base with a
drilled owner’s mark 8 2016 11/12 97 9

Height 11⅜ in., 28.8 cm

PROVENANCE
An Austrian Private Collection, prior to 1940 (by repute).
An English Private Collection, acquired in the 1950s.
Sotheby’s London, 9th November 2005, lot 291.

EXHIBITED
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2012-2015 (on loan).

LITERATURE
Regina Krahl, ‘China without Dragons. An Exhibition of
the Oriental Ceramic Society’, Orientations, vol. 47, no. 8,
November/December 2016, p. 97, g. 9.

$ 2,200,000-3,000,000

Owner’s mark drilled to
the base