EDO PERIOD (EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

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An Imari shaving basin
Edo Period (Early 18th Century)
Painted to the centre with the coat-of-arms of the Dutch city of Zutphen surrounded by butterflies, insects and peony, the rim decorated with shaped cartouches enclosing a goat, a cockerel or flowers reserved on a flower-and diaper-pattern ground, the reverse with two peony sprays, rubbed
26.9 cm. wide

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.

Lot Essay

See illustration on page 92.

See for a similar barber's bowl from the same series of twenty-four with a coat-of-arms of the city of Meggelen D.Howard and J.Ayers, China for the West, Vol.I., London, 1978, p.134, pl.113, and D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, 1994, p.226, pl.266.

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