A BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 'PEONY' MOONFLASK QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY |

the circular body surmounted by a slender tubular neck flanked by a pair of scroll handles, painted in washes of cobalt blue accentuated with simulated 'heaping and piling', the globular body decorated with flowers issuing from leafy stems, below a stiff-leaf band and foliate collar around the neck, the flat base unglazed

Collection of Walter F. Price (b. 1858), San Francisco, acquired from Vickery, Atkins, and Torrey, San Francisco in the 1920s-30s.

There is an approx. 2.5 x 3.5 cm triangular loss to the neck and rim. There is minor expected surface wear throughout and the neck, handles, and areas of the body have been oversprayed.
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