Description

A Chinese Cloisonne Moonflask (Bian Hu) 

decorated to the compressed sides with a central large peony mudan surrounded by a profusion of colourful foliage, chrysanthemum and smaller peony heads springing up from a ground with morning glory, lingzhi and other small blooms, applied with detailed bronze dragon handles flanking the bulbous neck, with the traditional key fret pattern bordering the foot-rim of an oval foot, 

Reference: For a similar, though larger example, please refer to Sotheby's, Paris, 8 June, 2007, lot 92.

 Literature: An example of a very similar Peony moon flask, is illustrated in Claudia Brown, Chinese Cloisonne, The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pl. 46; and another in the Pierre Uldry Collection in Helmut Brinker et Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonne, Zurich, 1985, pl. 234.

Condition: A small dent to the mouth rim. The handles are slightly loose. The surface slightly degraded around the lower part of the body. a minor chips

?Size:?

Height: 41cm

Provenance: 1. Private Collection, Melbourne

2. Lot 36, Leonard Joel, Asian Art, 25/10/2015

3. Lot 34, Sotheby's Australia, Collections: Important Asian, 17/07/2019 

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