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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A LARGE, MAGNIFICENT AND RARE BLUE
AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ MOONFLASK
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
the circular body rising from a splayed oval foot to a cylindrical
neck ß anked by a pair of S-scroll handles, Þ nely painted in
varying tones of cobalt blue enhanced by simulated ‘heaping
and piling’, each side centred on a large boss with a ß oral
medallion comprising overlapping ruyi-shaped petals, all
enclosed within a narrow lappet collar, with a broad band of
meandering leafy lotus scrolls, the sides similarly decorated
and with two raised bosses decorated with a ß oret, all within
double-line borders, the neck ß anked with scroll handles and
painted with upright plantain leaves, below a band of key-fret
at the rim, the base with a seal mark in underglaze blue
48.3 cm, 19⅛ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26th October 2003, lot 135.
£ 1,000,000-1,500,000
HK$ 11,050,000-16,570,000 US$ 1,410,000-2,120,000
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