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Auction archive: Lot number 606

A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK

Estimate
US$500,000 - US$600,000
Price realised:
US$541,000
Auction archive: Lot number 606

A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK

Estimate
US$500,000 - US$600,000
Price realised:
US$541,000
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) Well painted in fifteenth century style in rich underglaze blue with simulated 'heaping and piling' with an allover pattern of composite foliate meander, the penciled, scrolling, leafy stems bearing a central lotus blossom surrounded by six further flowers on each side and three flowers on the narrow sides below the dragon handles, each stem terminating in a smaller blossom, above a band of froth-capped waves encircling the rounded rectangular foot, repeated on the waisted neck above another band of flower scroll and a ruyi -head border 21 3/8 in. (54.3 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 606
Auction:
Datum:
19 Mar 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
19 March 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) Well painted in fifteenth century style in rich underglaze blue with simulated 'heaping and piling' with an allover pattern of composite foliate meander, the penciled, scrolling, leafy stems bearing a central lotus blossom surrounded by six further flowers on each side and three flowers on the narrow sides below the dragon handles, each stem terminating in a smaller blossom, above a band of froth-capped waves encircling the rounded rectangular foot, repeated on the waisted neck above another band of flower scroll and a ruyi -head border 21 3/8 in. (54.3 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 606
Auction:
Datum:
19 Mar 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
19 March 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
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