A BLUE AND WHITE BASIN MING DYNASTY, CHONGZHEN PERIOD

finely painted with a scholar and his attendant bearing a wrapped qin in a mountainous landscape framed within double line borders, the deep cavetto painted with a continuous landscape of further scholars, attendants and deer, all below a ruyi-head border, the flattened rim with figures amidst European-style building, the underside with two registers of four oval panels, enclosing birds on branches and boys, the footring drilled for suspension

S. Marchant & Son, March 1984.
The Sengers Collection, no. 172.
S. Marchant & Son, London, 2001.

Expositie "Schatten uit de Oost" of "De Kunst van het Verzamelen" / Eighty Years of Chinese Ceramic History in a Dutch Private Porcelain Collection, Delft Antique Fair, Delft, 1990, cat. no. 16.
Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain. The Drs. A. M. Sengers Collection, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2001, cat. no. 61. 

The basin is in good overall condition. The rim with a short firing tear, minor burst glaze bubbles and some fritting. The foot ring has some small chips and kiln adhesions. There is also a small drilled hole in the foot ring for suspension. There are characteristic minor glaze imperfections and wear consistent with age and use.
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