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         A RARE GUAN-TYPE GLAZED OCTAGONAL                 ᪺㢫᢬   Ͳ೚㕳Ռᑝሊᕖ⁅   Վಧ╌ᕋᢎ
         MOON FLASK
                                                           㫇᫈ᐦᝲ≡ᝳप㯸ᆨ߰卿ൈ஋ᆨǮᱡᣗᆨǮݨᙹᆨ✙卿⋁ԋࣽսݨᙹᆨ
         YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
         AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)                     ᝬἃ☮⧎卿ໄӽ׾ຽᥑཐǯजᬘ㖅ݦ։ཨ༿⏟ⲋ⎏㫇᫈᪪ݨᙹᐦᝲ≡卿
                                                           Ӭ։⧜֎ড়㞏卻     ݩߎ卼卿     ჺ    ᝲ   ᚚᙻ㲞ᳰצ೥ᇑᐽ㐈卿ᐽ
         The moon flask is sturdily potted with a flattened octagonal
                                                           ৅      ⽚厎Ӭ։㬪Ɽ⥾Ɽ㺠எ卻     ݩߎ卼卿     ჺ    ᝲ   ᚚᙻ㲞ᳰ
         body raised on a tapered foot and rising to a cylindrical neck
                                                           צ೥ᇑᐽ㐈卿ᐽ৅      ⽚ǯ
         flanked by a pair of openwork archaistic handles. The vase is
         covered under an even crackled glaze of bluish-grey tone. The
         foot is dressed brown.
         19…/”ÿ in. (48.4 cm.) high
         HK$300,000-500,000              US$39,000-64,000
         A number of different forms are known amongst surviving Yongzheng
         moon flasks, such as circular and quatrelobed forms. However, it is
         the octagonal form, such as the current vessel, which appears to be
         the rarest. Compare to a very few examples of Yongzheng-marked
         octagonal moon flasks of similar sizes, including a Ge-type glazed one
         (48.4 cm.) sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 December 2015, lot 3104;
         and a blue and white one designed with geese on a river bank (48.5
         cm.), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3051.







































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