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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 3, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art from the Collection of Sir Quo-Wei Lee | 113 | $****** - ****** | AN OUTSTANDING, FINE AND RARE COPPER-RED MOONFLASK |
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17.5 cm (6.89 in)
Sotheby's London, 9th July 1974, lot 278.
Bluett & Sons, London.
Eskenazi Ltd, London.
modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, generously potted with a flattened spherical body set with two circular bosses at the sides, rising to a garlic neck flanked by a pair of angular strap handles with ruyi-shaped terminals on the shoulders, all supported on a stepped foot of circular form, the front and back domed faces finely painted in rich copper-red tones with geometric panels, the centre with a lotus bloom borne on radiating leafy tendrils within a star-shaped panel, surrounded by six indented eight-sided panels enclosing geometric floral sprays, all encircled by six hexagonal panels of stylised flowerheads alternating with similar elongated panels of interlaced lozenges, the outer border with shaped panels enclosing stylised floral sprays forming the corners of a large hexagon, interspersed with pairs of narrow panels of flower scrolls, all divided by double line borders, the narrow sides of the flask decorated with detached floral sprays interrupted by flower heads on the raised bosses, the neck collared by a band of stylised floral sprays, below a garlic-form mouth painted with ruyi-shaped lappets enclosing stylised florets, the foot skirted with pendent trefoil spearheads above a band of small scrolls, the glazed concave centre of the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue, wood stand
