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A superb and exceptionally rare blue and white 'floral' moon flask, Ming dynasty, Yongle period 明永樂 　青花纏枝花卉紋雙耳扁壺 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 painted in rich cobalt tones with a single flowering stem springing from the bottom of the vessel and scrolling in a full circle around the domed surface while rhythmically bearing seven stylised blooms, rich foliage, and unusual fronds, the neck collared by a band of stylised floral springs below floral sprays encircling the bulbous mouth, all beneath a most lustrous transparent glaze, the flat unglazed base centred with a well hollowed-out, glazed, globular recess 扁壺器形以中東金銀器為雛本，壺腹扁圓，宛似滿月，上承圓頸，下接圓足，圈足外撇如環，平底無釉，足內施透明釉，器形比例和諧，壺腹二面皆繪單柄花藤，自底部蔓生，環繞器腹，綴七朵盛放嬌蕊，纏枝卷葉相襯，蕨狀長卷葉與花莖優雅相連，輕重錯落，宛如音韻美樂，壺側繪垂直線條，從雙耳貫穿腹側花鈕至圈足，宛若以前、後二部相接，扁壺釉色勻細，青花發色濃豔，紋飾筆法嫻熟，精彩細緻，布局縝密均衡 28.6 cm Estimate Upon Request