A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLOWER BASKET’ DISH KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD |

the shallow, rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a broad flared rim, the interior finely painted with a large woven bamboo basket set on a stand with three ruyi-head feet, the rounded sides of the basket supporting a flared rim overflowing with chrysanthemum, aster, peony, pomegranate blossoms, and other flowers beneath a tall, beribboned bamboo handle, the exterior painted with peony, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, coll. no. 297.

Marchant, London, 2001.

Jeffrey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, pl. 23.

The dish is in overall good condition. There are a very few minute frits to the rim, minor imperfections and tiny chips to the foot rim.
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