One of only three known surviving turquoise-ground underglaze-blue and copper-red ‘dragon’ Qianlong moonflasks emerges onto the market after a decade.
Not many underglaze-blue and copper-red dragon moonflasks produced during Qianlong’s reign were lucky enough to survive in history, and their colour-glazed counterparts are even harder to come by. Amongst all colours, to find one in the arresting turquoise glaze is almost an impossible task of all, for there are no more than two examples known to exist to date. One of them, which sports a distinct lime-green underside, will now be offered as a star lot at Bonhams Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale on 30 November in Hong Kong.
The exceptionally rare Liddell Moonflask from the prestigious Huaihaitang Collection（懷海堂）from Hong Kong carries an estimate of HK$18,000,000-25,000,000.