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A pilgrim flask ‘baoyueping’ on oval foot-ring (Ming dynasty, first half 17th century)
£ 115,000.00
Period: Ming dynasty, first half 17th century
Dimensions: 25cm high
Provenance:
Galery Lamy – Oriental Fine Arts (Brussels)
A private Belgian collection
Description
The pilgrim flask or moon flask decorated with peaches and pomegranate. The short narrow neck with two looped handles and the body sitting on an oval foot-ring.
This cloisonné example is based on vases of this type in porcelain. Compare an almost identical flask of the same size with an inverted gilt-bronze rim in the Pierre Uldry Collection, illustrated in ‘Chinese Cloisonné: the Pierre Uldry Collection’, no. 138. And an identical flask of slightly smaller size, also in the Pierre Uldry Collection, no. 136. An almost identical pilgrim flask with a ‘Jingtai’ mark can be found in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, see Getz (1912, pl. 47).
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