A CHINESE IMARI NOTCHED-RIM BASIN

KANGXI PERIOD

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A CHINESE IMARI NOTCHED-RIM BASIN
Kangxi period
The oval basin and elaborately notched rim decorated with a Chinese landscape in cobalt blue with iron-red and gilt details, the sides with four iron-red flowering boughs, the edge molded
15¾in. (40cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The form after Iberian or Latin American silver. See L. Anderson, El Arte de la Plateria en Mexico 1519-1936, pls. 87 & 88. See also an example in Canton enamel sold Sotheby's London, 12 November 1996, lot 248.

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