Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art

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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL PILGRIM FLASK ‘BAOYUEPING’
ON OVAL FOOT-RING
Ming dynasty, first half 17th century
明 17 世 纪 上 半 叶 铜 胎 掐 丝 珐 琅 抱 月 瓶
Dimensions: 25cm high
Provenance: - A private Belgian collection
- Galery Lamy – Oriental Fine Arts (Brussels)
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).