A massive cloisonné enamel foliate-rim basin, 17th century | 十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯人物故事圖折沿葵口盆

Roger Keverne, London, 22nd October 2004.

Roger Keverne，倫敦，2004年10月22日

Large cloisonné basins featuring pictorial scenes became very popular in the 17th century. Compare a closely related example, in the collection of the Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, as a bequest of Baroness Salomon de Rothschild, exhibited in Cloisonné. Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, cat. no. 137; and one decorated with a garden scene depicting an official receiving guests accompanied by attendants, attributed to the Kangxi period, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st June 2011, lot 3593. Compare also a basin decorated with Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, and other celestial figures arriving on multi-coloured clouds, also from the collection of the Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, illustrated in op. cit., fig. 7.18, p. 139; and another sold in our Paris rooms, 12th December 2013, lot 63.

Cloisonné basins of similar form are also found with other, more traditional motifs, such as stylised chi dragons and shou (longevity) characters, as illustrated in Chinesisches Cloisonné Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1985, cat. no. 177; or dragon and phoenix, in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, illustrated in Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1970, pl. 60.