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PROPERTY OF A LADY
女史珍藏
3027

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK 明永樂 青花輪花紋綬帶耳葫蘆瓶
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425) 來源:
The elegant flask is well potted with a flattened, but slightly domed, Enrico Maestrini舊藏
circular lower section and a globular upper section narrowing to a 埃斯肯納齊，倫敦
short neck and a bulb-shaped mouth. The widest part of the upper 玫茵堂舊藏
bulb is painted with a band of composite floral scroll, above the lower
section painted on each side with an eight-pointed arabesque centred 出版:
by a yinyang symbol encircled by petals, bordered by a 'half cash' band 康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，第4冊，
around the edge. The flask stands on an oval foot flanked by a pair
of strap handles on either side joining the neck and shoulders of the 圖版1644號
vessel, with petal-shaped terminals on the shoulders. All in brilliant
tones of blue with heaping and piling.
10º in. (25.7 cm.) high
HK$8,000,000-12,000,000 US$1,100,000-1,500,000
P R O V E NAN C E :
Collection of Enrico Maestrini
Eskenazi Ltd, London
The Meiyintang Collection
L I T E R AT U R E :
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1644

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