An exceptionally rare and 🥀finely painted copper-red 'nine dragon' moon flask,

Seal mark and period of Qianlong

清乾隆 釉裏紅九龍海水紋雙耳扁壺 《大清乾隆年製》款

the moon-shaped body finely painted in rich tones of raspberry red with nine ferocious five-clawed dragons writhing amidst vaporous clouds and above crashing waves, surmounted by a tall neck decorated with a swooping bat suspending a tasselled chime on each side, between collars of pendent trefoils and flanked by two ruyi-handles, the countersunk base inscribed with a six-character se൲al mark in underglaze-blue

29.2 cm