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Lot Essay
Basins of this type were used as wash basins, such as the example shown supported in a wood stand in a photograph illustrated by Wan Yi et al., in Daily Life in the Forbidden City, New York, 1988, p. 149, pl. 203.
A basin decorated with a very similar scene of Xi Wangmu, the Daoist Queen Mother of the West, and attendants floating on multicolored clouds above her palace in the Kunlun Park, of comparable size (55.5 cm. diam.), is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, no. 162, where it is dated second half 17th century. Another in the collection of the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, is illustrated by G. Avitabile in Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland: Chinesische und japanische Cloisonné- und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, 1981, pp. 92-3, no. 43, where it is dated to the second half of the Wanli period (1590-1619). See, also, the similar basin from the C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection sold at Christie's New York, 20 October 2004, lot 606, and the example from the collection of David B. Peck III sold in Rivers of Color: Cloisonne Enamels from Private American Collections; Christie’s New York, 18 September 2014, lot 601.
A basin decorated with a very similar scene of Xi Wangmu, the Daoist Queen Mother of the West, and attendants floating on multicolored clouds above her palace in the Kunlun Park, of comparable size (55.5 cm. diam.), is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, no. 162, where it is dated second half 17th century. Another in the collection of the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, is illustrated by G. Avitabile in Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland: Chinesische und japanische Cloisonné- und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, 1981, pp. 92-3, no. 43, where it is dated to the second half of the Wanli period (1590-1619). See, also, the similar basin from the C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection sold at Christie's New York, 20 October 2004, lot 606, and the example from the collection of David B. Peck III sold in Rivers of Color: Cloisonne Enamels from Private American Collections; Christie’s New York, 18 September 2014, lot 601.