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A cloisonné enamel 'peony' moon flask late Qing dynasty

Estimate $8,000 – $10,000

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the flattened globular body supported on a slightly splayed foot encircled with a key-fret border, decorated overall with full bloomed peony flowers in various colours among dense green foliage growing from a grassy bank with further flowering plants and lingzhi shoots, all reserved on the turquoise ground, the bulbous neck flanked by two dragon form handles
37.5 cm high

  • Lot Sold $12,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $14,640 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Emilia Stella, Milan, Italy
Important Chinese Art and a Private Collection of Chinese, European Art and Antiques, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 22 November 2011, lot 628
Private Collection Sydney

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Catalogue Notes

A larger moon flask with similar decoration from the Collection of Baron Antoine Allard, sold Arts d'Asie, Sotheby's, Paris, 10 June 2014, lot 74; another sold Rivers of Colour: Cloisonne Enamels from Private American Collections, Christie's, New York, 8 September 2014, lot 640

Condition Report

One handle slightly loose, some slight surface wear and wear to gilding. Otherwise generally good condition.

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