Description
A MINIATURE CLOISONNé AND GILT-BRONZE PILGRIM FLASK, BIANHU, MING DYNASTY
China, 1368-1644. The flattened globular body with a Manchurian crane on one side and a deer on the other, both surrounded by lingzhi-shaped clouds, surmounted by a straight neck flanked by a pair of s-shaped gilt handles.
Provenance: Old English private collection. By repute acquired from Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London.
Condition: Good and fully original condition with extensive wear, manufacturing flaws and pitting as expected in this type of ware, some minor nicks with associated losses.
Weight: 78 g
Dimensions: Height 7.3 cm
Elaborately enameled in white, yellow, red, blue and green on a brilliant turquoise ground, the interior of the base, foot rim, lip and handles gilt.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a related but larger bianhu sold by Bonham’s Hong Kong in Fine Chinese Art on 28 November 2011, lot 389, for HKD $187,500.
微型景泰藍鎏金抱月扁壺,明代
中國,1368-1644。扁壺一面飾有滿州鶴,另一面是鹿,四周如意形雲紋,頸部兩側飄帶形鎏金雙耳。
來源:英國私人老收藏,據説購於倫敦 Sydney L. Moss Ltd.
品相:總體品相良好,磨損嚴重,有製作缺陷,輕微劃痕和相關缺損。
重量:78 克
尺寸:高 7.3 厘米
拍賣結果比較:一件相似但較大的扁壺于2011年11月28日香港邦翰思《中國藝術》拍號389,成交價HKD $187,500。