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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEACH AND BAT’ 清乾隆
MOONFLASK 青花纏枝蓮紋杏圓開光福壽紋雙耳扁壺
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
《大清乾隆年製》款
the flattened circular body rising from a short splayed foot
to a waisted neck flanked by a pair of ruyi handles, moulded 來源：
in low relief to either side with a peach-shaped panel painted 香港蘇富比1993年4月27日，編號166
in rich tones of cobalt with simulated ‘heaping and piling’
depicting a pair of bats flying among fruiting sprays of
peaches, reserved on a leafy floral scroll ground, the neck
decorated with a lotus scroll below a band of upright ruyi
and a lingzhi scroll encircling the mouth-rim, the handles
carefully shaded in washes of blue, the narrow sides painted
with foliate lingzhi and the foot picked out with a ‘classic’
scroll, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark
23.9 cm, 9⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27th April 1993, lot 166.

HK$ 1,800,000-2,500,000
US$ 230,000-319,000

Mark

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