A RARE LARGE STRIPED BASIN

Property from the MARY C. BELIN TRUST

Details

A RARE LARGE STRIPED BASIN
YONGZHENG ARCHAISTIC SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN BLACK AND OF THE PERIOD

The shallow, thick-walled vessel with lipped rim glazed inside and out in black and a pale pinkish mauve wash with vertical stripes overlaid on the exterior with a white braided band repeated around the foot rim, the center 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 yellowish russet tone, small glaze pulls
16½in. (41.9cm.) diam.

Further details

See illustration of two views

Lot Essay

For a slightly smaller, though similarly painted, Yongzheng-marked basin see John 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 Liang-yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, Taiwan, 1991, p. 129