An outstanding and possibly unique famille-rose and doucai moon flask, Seal mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 鬪彩加粉彩安喜圖卷雲耳扁壺 《大清雍正年製》款

An outstanding and possibly unique famille-rose and doucai moon flask,

Seal mark and period of Yongzheng

清雍正 鬪彩加粉彩安喜圖卷雲耳扁壺

《大清雍正年製》款

of impressively large size, superbly potted with a plump round body surmounted by a tall neck, with two elegant ruyi-cloud shaped handles joining the neck and shoulder, painted in a free and painterly manner with flower-and-bird motif on each side, one side with a magpie in underglaze-blue perched on a rocky outcrop issuing sprigs of lingzhi, chrysanthemum and convolvulus, the magpie calling up to its mate perched on a fruiting and flowering pomegranate tree, the other side with a pair of quails perched on a tall pierced rockwork, next to clusters of bamboo intertwined with sprays of roses, with further sprigs of chrysanthemum near the rockwork and a tall spray of hibiscus extending up the shoulders, the design throughout within delicately delineated underglaze-blue outlines, the multitude of auspicious fruits and flowers exquisitely painted in colour washes and shaded tones of red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and pink, further detailed with a fanciful variety of butterflies and insects hovering in various places, the scroll-shaped handles beautifully adorned with flowering sprigs and encircled by ruyi-head medallions at the terminals on the neck, beneath a narrow band of detached florettes between double lines on the rim, the base inscribed with a six-charcter seal mark in underglaze-blue

37.2 cm