A rare blue and white basin. Shunzhi period (1643-1661) - image-1
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Lot 1379 Dα

A rare blue and white basin. Shunzhi period (1643-1661)

Auction 1093 - overview Brussels
18.06.2017, 14:00 - China - Decorative Arts, Ceramics and Porcelain
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 6.200 € (incl. premium)
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A rare blue and white basin. Shunzhi period (1643-1661)

With a brown rim, decorated with a lady resting her chin on her hand dreaming of her love, Du Liniang, the main character from the Kunqu-opera Mudan ting (The Peony Pavilion) by Tang Xianzu, and the Three Abundances (sanduo), leafy, fruiting branches of peach, pomegranate and the Buddha's hand citron and bamboo to the outside. Four-character mark Yu tang jia qi (Fine vessel for the Jade Hall). Channelled footring.
Diameter 34.7 cm

清順治 青花《牡丹亭 杜麗娘》大盤
來源：德國波鴻私人收藏

Provenance

Private collection, Bochum

Literature

For the form compare: Sir Michael Butler, Margaret Medley, Stephen Little, Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, Alexandria 1990, p. 146, plate 95