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Appreciate all help I can get to identify this Chinese Moon Flask. Age, value, mark?
Thanks in advance!

I believe it is the Qianlong mark on the base. However, I'm not sure it is authentic or a good copy. Would appreciate your opinions.

I looked at such moon flasks in the liveauctioneers.com archives and found three examples with the same decoration and Qianlong mark that had sold in the post-2016 period. One showed a top bid upwards of $1000 and a second of more than $3000. I believe these figures could represent speculative bidding but still are nothing like what a authenticated genuine Qianlong moon flask would bring in a Sotheby's or Christies auction. Also, the wider than usual variances in linear tracery and the artificially dirtied foot on your flask can only bode for a probable late 20th century date, in my opinion. However, there may still be a few bidders out there who would pay four figures to find out whether they have a Qing treasure or not.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Hi Daniel,
Not an expert on porcelain but can advise you of what I believe is correct.
The mark is Qianlong, but s very much later copy, hence late 20th century.
The dirty colour on the base is wrong along with the colour of the white.
Not sure if the design is hand painted or a print.
These types of wares, if genuine sell for large sums and hence have been copied/mass produced.
Regards
mark@imperial

Thanks Bill & Mark!

Happy new year;
Br,
Daniel

These copied moon flasks are made by the thousands in China and exported around the world. Many low level auction houses sell these as genuine. The foot is clumsy and artificially browned and the white glaze is spotless.

The mark is Qianlong. All authentic Qianlong Moon Flasks are exceedingly rare. You wont find an authentic one on Live Auctioneers. Several of the Live Auctioneers sellers are renownd for selling fakes. If the auction company is selling an abundance of items that would normally sell for hunderds of thousands or even millions of dollars at a major auction house for the bargain price of 1,000 to 20,000 you should stay away. They are all modern reproductions. Authentic Qianlong Moon Flasks sell at Christies or Sotheby's for 2+ million USD.



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