A FINE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'LADIES' BASIN

KANGXI 1662-1722

The well painted with a large roundel enclosing a seated gentlewoman and her attendants watching a dancer perform as a large group of women play accompanying music, they play horns, drums, pipes and other instruments, with cartouches enclosing mythical beasts, a deer and flowers to the rim, the panels divided by further blooms and butterflies, together with an old photograph of the item from S Marchant & Son, 38.4cm.

Provenance: S Marchant & Son.

Cf. Marchant, 90th Anniversary Exhibition of Qing Porcelain from Private Collections, pp.16-17, no.7 for a comparable famille verte basin decorated with a figural scene surrounded by cartouches reserved on floral diaper; see also Sotheby's New York, 19th March 2013, lot 180 for another related basin; see also J P Stamen and C Volk, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, pp.50-51, no.10 for a related large famille verte dish decorated with a dancing lady and musicians performing at a banquet.