A VERTE-IMARI "PROVINCES" BARBER'S BASIN

CIRCA 1720

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A VERTE-IMARI "PROVINCES" BARBER'S BASIN
Circa 1720
Enamelled in the center with the arms of Gelderlant on a field of peony blooms and large butterflies, the rim underglaze blue diaper pattern enclosing cartouches of domestic animals and iron-red and gilt floral sprigs, the back with large boughs of iron-red and cobalt blue peony
10 5/8in. (27cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Fewer barber's basins than dishes seem to have been made in the "Provinces" series. One with the arms of France was in the Mottahedeh collection, sold 19 October 2000, lot 134. Lady Charlotte Schreiber records in her journal acquiring one with the arms of Groningen in 1879 (Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals, London 1911, p.205, see Le Corbeiller, op. cit., p. 39)

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