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Lot 209
A large cloisonné enamel moonflask, bianping Circa 1800
13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £12,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA 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.
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.
Footnotes
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.














