Lot Essay
Baskets of this type in famille verte are illustrated by Gorer and Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hardstones, London, 1911, vol. II, pl. 184 and by Walter Bondy, Kang-Hsi, Munchen, 1923, p. 166
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AN IRON-RED AND GILT-DECORATED RETICULATED BASKET AND COVER
KANGXI
The compressed body pierced with cell-diaper panels centered by flower sprigs, reserved on an iron-red diaper ground scattered with blossoms, all above a narrow band of petals, with an upright squared loop handle painted to simulate bamboo, the domed, reticulated cover similarly decorated below a bud finial, all picked out in iron-red and gilt, the walls of the pierced diaper washed in pale green, some restoration--5 1/4in. (13.4cm.) wide
KANGXI
The compressed body pierced with cell-diaper panels centered by flower sprigs, reserved on an iron-red diaper ground scattered with blossoms, all above a narrow band of petals, with an upright squared loop handle painted to simulate bamboo, the domed, reticulated cover similarly decorated below a bud finial, all picked out in iron-red and gilt, the walls of the pierced diaper washed in pale green, some restoration--5 1/4in. (13.4cm.) wide