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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN

The Property of a Gentleman
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A VERY RARE SMALL INCISED WHITE-GLAZED ૈ♥珍藏
'LOTUS SCROLL' MOON FLASK 清康熙 雍正 白釉ח折枝蓮紋雙耳抱月瓶
KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735) Ϝ源
暫得樓胡惠春（1911 1995）珍藏
An apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark in underglaze blue is inscribed in ֨ḛ
a line below the mouth rim. Helen D. Ling及仇焱̃，Ǘ暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影ㄩǘ，ⓧˏ՝，香港，1950年，
7¿ in. (18 cm.) high, cloth box
編號44
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
J. M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou Collection.
LITERATURE:
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the
Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 44

The present moon flask belongs to a small and very rare group of small
moon flasks with shaped handles and six-character Chenghua marks, all
with similar body material, delicate clear glaze, and form. The present
moon flask appears to be the only example from this group which is
incised rather than decorated in doucai enamels.

A moon flask of similar size, form, and with a similarly written
Chenghua mark in a line below the mouth rim, but with the addition
of doucai decoration is in the Percival David Foundation collection,
illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, volume
7, The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Tokyo, 1976, no.
92. Another doucai-decorated moon flask from this group was sold at
Christie’s New York, 23-24 March 2003, lot 1060.

The present vase illustrated by Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow in Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 44.
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