A very rare famille verte black-ground moon flask, China, Yongzheng period. Photo Nagel Auktionen

The exterior is enamelled in yellow, blue, black, green and iron-red with dense scrolling foliage reserved on a black ground and covered have a green glaze. The neck and the mouth rim with a band of classical scroll, the interior and base are covered in a transparent white glaze, the foot is unglazed, revealing the pale body. This type of decoration is generally dated to the Yongzheng period - Good condition. H. 27,1 cm. Estimate 20 000/30 000 €.

Provenance: Old Hamburg private collection. According to the previous owner of this piece, it was bought by his father around 1965 from Ruef Auctioneers in Munich

A very similary decorated pair of bottle vases formerly in the R. May Collection is preserved in the collection oft he Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and published in 'Asiatic Art in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam', ed. P. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Amsterdam 1985, no. 87

A baluster vase with very similar decoration is published 'An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection', Christie's London, 2-14 June 1993, no. 34 

Nagel Auktionen. 2013/05/08. http://www.auction.de/