From The Collections of Mrs. Alice Marie Hazell, Reached the wonderful age of 81 being born in 1935-2017. She was the spouse of the late victor Hazell together they had traveled the world together they enjoyed visiting museums and later became employed by several smaller museums, Victor Hazell was placed in charge of procuring many of the items for the various museums, while his specialties were bronzes he developed a passion for jade and porcelain items. In the early stages in his career he found that he could find items of great value that the museums had no room for or had similar items in their inventory. Having the resources to date and value the items he found became a real serendipity for him, it started out as a few collectables to a full-scale collection. With the sale of these collectibles it is hoped for that another private collector will add these treasures to their portfolio and treasure them as much as Victor did. The Collections of Mrs. Alice Marie Hazell presented and offered up to auctions from Lot-181 through Lot-208.
a tea dust moon flask vase. Its shape means ?embracing the moon? and consists of a circular flattened body signifying the moon, a flat base, cylindrical neck and 2 applied handles which arch gracefully, descend on either side to create an ?embrace? between neck and body and terminate into a pair of ruyi. The unusual neck is composed of 2 parts ? a small tubular neck which is topped by a ?garlic bulb? or ?garlic mouth. In some dialects, the sounds for ?carp? and ?perch? sound the same as ?incorruptible?. This vase is not a does not fit the classic moon flask definition because the neck is truncated, a thing ring encircles the shoulders and the body terminates into a flat base instead of a circle. Unusual. This shape was also seen during the Wanli period. A hardwood stand accompanies this vase.