Magnificent blue and white 'floral' moon flask, Ming dynasty, Yongle period
modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, elegantly potted with a flattened moon-shaped body rising from a circular splayed foot to a garlic neck flanked by a pair of handles ending with ruyi-shaped terminals on the shoulders, further decorated with a domed lug detailed with a floral motif at the centre of each narrow side, the narrow sides painted with vertical lines interrupted by the handles and lugs, as though composed of two vertical halves, each side of the vase superbly
Blue-and-white dish with bunches of grapes, Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), Jingdezhen kilns, porcelain, thrown, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue, 7.3 cm (height), 37.7 cm (diameter), at foot 14.3 cm (diameter). Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust. Ashmolean Museum, LI1301.384 © The University of Sussex
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