AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE MOONFLASK
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE MOONFLASK YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735) The flask is delicately painted in cobalt of sapphire-blue tone with simulated 'heaping and piling' effect. One side of the compressed circular body is painted with a Chinese bulbul perched on a flowering peach blossom branch, entwined with a twig of bamboo. The reverse side is similarly decorated with a bird on a branch of flowering prunus, swooping in descent towards sprays of bamboo, while the shoulder and the lower body are further decorated with leafy scroll motifs. The side arched handles are decorated with S-scroll motifs. The elegantly splayed tall neck is painted with further bamboo stems under double circles below the mouth rim. The underside of the base is unglazed and slightly concave. 8 3/4 in. (22.3 cm.) high
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE MOONFLASK
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE MOONFLASK YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735) The flask is delicately painted in cobalt of sapphire-blue tone with simulated 'heaping and piling' effect. One side of the compressed circular body is painted with a Chinese bulbul perched on a flowering peach blossom branch, entwined with a twig of bamboo. The reverse side is similarly decorated with a bird on a branch of flowering prunus, swooping in descent towards sprays of bamboo, while the shoulder and the lower body are further decorated with leafy scroll motifs. The side arched handles are decorated with S-scroll motifs. The elegantly splayed tall neck is painted with further bamboo stems under double circles below the mouth rim. The underside of the base is unglazed and slightly concave. 8 3/4 in. (22.3 cm.) high
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