A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACH' MOONFLASKS, BAOYUEPING

19TH CENTURY

With compressed circular bodies, each moulded with peach-shaped panels to the principal sides, painted with scenes of bats in flight amongst fruiting peach branches, the designs surrounded by continuous scrolls of flowering lotus, with bands of lingzhi to the sides, each surmounted by a short waisted neck flanked by two applied strap handles terminating in moulded ruyi-heads, with six character Daoguang marks to the bases, 24.8cm. (2)

Provenance: acquired in the 1970s.

Cf. Sotheby's London, 19th June 1984, lot 351 for a single Daoguang mark and period moonflask of this type; see also Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, pl.112 for another Daoguang flask with this pattern in the collection of the National Palace Museum; see also The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), p.162, no.148 for a Jiaqing mark and period moonflask with the same design; see also Christie's New York, 14th September 2012, lot 1450 for a Qianlong example.