A VERY RARE FAUX BOIS PORCELAIN BASIN BLACK ENAMEL YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A VERY RARE FAUX BOIS PORCELAIN BASIN BLACK ENAMEL YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The strongly potted vessel with a rounded well rising to a lipped rim, decorated inside and out with vertical stripes in a black and a pale pinkish mauve wash overlaid on the exterior with an opaque white braided band repeated around the foot rim, the centre of the interior and the base painted as faux bois, the grain and knots in the wood executed in dark mauve reserved against a wash of very pale russet tone, the enamels rubbed to interior
16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

The Mary C. Belin Trust, sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 302.

Lot Essay

For a slightly smaller, though similarly painted, Yongzheng-marked basin, see J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1976, vol. IV, A642. The Baur example, however, has coral-red and black vertical stripes and horizontal yellow braided bands, the interior bottom also imitates wood grain (faux bois).

Another deeper basin with wood grain painted on the exterior is illustrated by Liu Liangyou, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, Taibei, 1991, p. 129.

(US$50,000-58,000)

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