Blue-and-white moon flask or bianhu, Yongle period, 1403 - 1425, Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), Jingdezhen kilns, porcelain, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue,29.5 x 20.5 x 12.5 cm max. (height x width x depth), width and depth at foot 29.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm (height x width x depth). Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund, in honour of Sir Christopher White's Directorship of the Ashmolean, 1997. EA1997.190 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford