Lot Essay
Compare this bowl with larger basins decorated in basse taille enamel with gold and silver foil. A blue-enamelled basin with gold Buddhist emblems around the interior well and on the everted rim, was included in the exhibition Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1987, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 56; and another, without the emblems, was included in the exhibition Splendors of a Flourishing Age, Museu de Arte de Macau, 1999, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 74.