Vase en porcelaine émaillée 'Clair de Lune', Chine, début du XXème siècle. Estimate €4,000 – €6,000 ($4,496 - $6,743). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015
The body of the vase is finely moulded with an angular kui-dragon scroll band between a band of stiff leaves and ruyi-heads to the shoulder and a key-fret band to the foot. The vase is covered with a soft blue glaze, and the base has an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark; restorations. 13 ¼ in. (34.3 cm.) high
Provenance: Sotheby's London, 12-14 July 2006, lot 587.
Property of a European Collector.
A 'CLAIR DE LUNE'-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE, CHINA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Christie's. ART D'ASIE, 9 June 2015, Paris