A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE MOONFLASK, BAOYUEPING

18TH CENTURY

Decorated in the early Ming style, each side painted with stylised petals and flowerheads radiating from a yin-yang symbol, the two strap handles with central raised ridges and shaped terminals containing sprays of peony, with a band of scrolling floral and foliate designs to the upper bulb, 24.2cm.

Provenance: sold in these rooms on 23rd May 2012, lot 134.

Cf. Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr and Mrs J M Hu, The Shanghai Museum, p.74, pl.40 for an almost identical vase.