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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

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A RARE LARGE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK,
BIANHU
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1725-1735)
The vessel is decorated to each convex side of the fattened circular body with
a network of stylised foral scrolls, cleverly highlighted with simulated heaping
and piling efect, all within a narrow scroll border. The shoulders are applied
with a pair of elegant strap handles, each decorated with meandering foliage
bearing fowers, terminating in ruyi heads, all below the 'garlic' neck painted
with several horizontal bands of foral scrolls.
20√ in. (53 cm.) high

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PROVENANCE
Acquired in Asia by the grandfather of the current owner between 1920-1943.
清雍正 青花纏枝花卉紋如意耳葫蘆扁壺 六字篆書款

來源: 重要歐洲私人珍藏, 現藏家之祖父於1920-1943年
間購自亞洲

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