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A CREAM-GLAZED POTTERY MOON FLASK
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The moon flask is molded on one side with a front-facing dragon clutching a flaming pearl amidst clouds and waves, and on the other side with a phoenix amidst vaporous clouds, all between key-fret bands on the neck and around the spreading foot, and covered in a cream-tone glaze.
14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high
Provenance

Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.
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