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Description: | Heavily potted moon flask or pilgrim bottle. The flattened, globular flask stands on a spreading circular foot, with a short contracted garlic-neck and two right-angled handles from the rim to the shoulder. The flask is painted on each side in underglaze copper-red. The front and back are decorated similarly with elaborate roundels of shaped panels containing geometric and floral designs. There is a wide floral band on the sides of the bottle, with a small boss applied at the centre and a narrow floral band on the outer surface of the handles. The neck has a band of ruyi-heads from the rim. The foot is decorated with a repeating pattern between a double and a single ring. The flask is glazed except for the footrim. There is a six-character Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue on the base. Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press, p. 46 | Subjects: | flask receptacle/vessel flask | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=337... | Go to resource |
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