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A 'Ming-style' blue and white moonflask, bianhu 18th century
4 June 2015, 10:30 HKT
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A 'Ming-style' blue and white moonflask, bianhu
18th century
The flattened circular body boldly decorated on each side in deep cobalt blue with a leafy fruiting branch of peaches, below a band of pendent leaves at the shoulder, with scroll-form curved handles at the cylindrical neck, box.
19cm (7 1/2in) high (2).
The flattened circular body boldly decorated on each side in deep cobalt blue with a leafy fruiting branch of peaches, below a band of pendent leaves at the shoulder, with scroll-form curved handles at the cylindrical neck, box.
19cm (7 1/2in) high (2).
Footnotes
十八世紀 仿明式青花桃紋雙耳扁壺
The present lot is an example of 18th century wares modelled after blue and white moonflasks from the Yongle period. Compare the form with a Yongle period moonflask, decorated with lychees, illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.109, no.3:20. These Ming dynasty prototypes were in turn modelled after Central Asian or Persian metallic flasks which first entered China in the Tang period. With painted dots to simulate the early Ming 'heap and pile' effect, the current lot's peach decoration was also executed to imitate those found on Ming period pieces.
本器為十八世紀清代模仿明永樂青花作品之典型一例。可參考倫敦大英博物館藏一明永樂例子，見J.Harrison-Hall著，《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦，2001年，頁109，編號3:20。