Gourde en porcelaine bleu blanc Marque et époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

la panse circulaire reposant sur un piédouche évasé et surmontée d'un col tubulaire flanqué d'anses mouvementées, au centre un médaillon central en relief entouré de huit pétales de lotus peints dans un camaïeu de bleu cobalt, chacun abritant un emblème bouddhiste, les côtés ornés d'une bande centrale continue de têtes de ruyi dans des rinceaux se répétant à la base du col et autour du pied, les contours de la panse et les bords soulignés d'une frise de grecques, une marque Qianlong à six caractères en cachet en bleu sous couverte à la base

Collection formed in Japan in the 1930s. 

Ca. 5cm of the upper part of the neck has been restored and it appears that a crescent-shaped part, ca. 5cm deep and taking up 2/3 of the neck, has been rebuilt. The vase is leaning to one side. There are several small light brown firing flaws to the glaze along the sides of the vase. There is some wear (scratching and tiny frits) to the rims along both sides of the vase.
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In its design this moon flask closely follows the decoration found on the interior of an early fifteenth century basin from the Avery Brundage collection in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, with eight petal panels radiating from a double vajra with each panel containing one of the eight auspicious Buddhist emblems (bajixiang). The Brundage basin was included in the exhibition Blue and White, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1985, cat. no. 28, where John Carswell mentions fourteenth century designs with auspicious objects in radiating lotus panels of varying numbers.