Lot Essay
Compare with a six-lobed basin with flat everted rim (52 cm), dated to the second half of the 17th century, decorated with dragons and shou characters in the Pierre Uldry Collection, illustrated in Chinese Cloisonné, London 1989, no. 177 ; see also a lobed Kangxi-marked painted enamel dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, featured in the exhibition of Great National Treasures of China, Catalogue, p.125, no.68