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四 45. Imperial blue and white moonflask, bian hu, with two upright ruyi-head terminal handles, flared rim and everted foot,
十 decorated on each side with a raised peach-shaped medallion enclosing a fruiting peach branch with five ripe fruit
五 amongst leaves between bats in flight encircled by a continuous scrolling branch of stylised flowering lotus, the flat sides

with scrolling branches of fruiting lingzhi, all within double lines, the neck painted with bands of lotus, ruyi, and lingzhi
御 fungus, all above a foliate continuous band on the foot.
製 24.2cm high.
青 The base with six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.
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花 • Formerly in a French private collection formed in Burgundy before 1890 and then by descent.
卉 • An identical moonflask is illustrated by Toratarō Yoneyama in Qing Dynasty Porcelain from the Seikado Bunko Art
開 Museum, no. 49, p. 58; another, is illustrated by Yutaka Mino and James Robinson in Beauty and Tranquillity: The Eli
光 Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1983, pl. 116.
桃 • A Jiaqing example in The Qing Court Collection is illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red
紋 (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, Volume 36, no. 148, p. 162.
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