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A PUCE-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' MOONFLASK
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN PUCE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The moonflask is finely decorated to each side with a confronting dragon and a phoenix amongst clouds
and fire scrolls. The interior and the base are both glazed turquoise.
11 1/2 in. (29 cm.) high
£30,000-50,000 US$39,000-64,000
€33,000-55,000
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection in Ireland.
It is exceedingly rare to find vessels solely decorated with pink enamel, such as the present lot. A slightly
smaller, similarly shaped, flask in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is decorated depicting
overglaze pink dragons but with the addition of underglaze blue clouds, illustrated in Blue and White
Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol.
36, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 254, no. 232. See also the large pink-enamelled blue and white moonflask,
Qianlong six-character sealmark and of the period (1736-1795), sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1
December 2010, lot 2968, where the rendering of the feathers on the phoenix is particularly similar to
the current lot.

(mark)
清乾隆 胭脂紅釉龍鳳呈祥扁壺 六字篆書款
來源:
愛爾蘭私人舊藏

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