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Lot 209

A large cloisonné enamel moonflask, bianping
Circa 1800

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £12,000 inc. premium

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A large cloisonné enamel moonflask, bianping

Circa 1800
The flattened globular body rising to the bulbous garlic neck and everted rim, flanked by a pair of clambering gilt chilong dragon handles, supported on an oval foot, colourfully enamelled with myriad peony blossoms issuing from an undulating ground strewn with lingzhi fungus, grass and flowers, the foot with a key-fret border, all reserved on a turquoise ground.
53cm (20⅞in) high.

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Provenance: an Italian private collection, Lombardy.

Compare a similar but smaller (32.5cm high) cloisonné enamel moonflask, sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2009, lot 271.

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