Asian Art II - 14th November 2018
Lot 737
A CHINESE SGRAFFITO POTTERY BASIN MING DYNASTY The deep body decorated to the interior with a...
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000
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Description
A CHINESE SGRAFFITO POTTERY BASIN
MING DYNASTY
The deep body decorated to the interior with a green glaze over a brown slip, with a band of the eight trigrams encircling two central fish creating a yin-yang symbol to the centre and panels containing floral sprays and scenes from folk tales and theatre plays to the cavetto, the broad rim with a geometric border, the exterior unglazed, 36.5cm.
Provenance: acquired in the Netherlands in the 1990s.
Cf. J Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, pp.499-450, pl.15:6 for a similar basin.