Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1735-1740 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:chinoiserie shell
Dimensions:Height: 36.50 centimetres Length: 64.90 centimetres Weight: 23 kilograms Width: 44.60 centimetres
Description:
Very large famille rose basin. Deep oval body with inside four rococo cartouches enclosing two pairs of seated chinoiserie figures drinking tea and smoking a long clay pipe, after a design influenced by Cornelius Pronk. Floral garlands at the broad flaring rim. The exterior has similar garlands on a diaper-ground and a band of scallop shells at the shoulder with turquoise diaper. (Related to Franks 588).
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![图片[1]-basin BM-2003-1129.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00014254_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-basin BM-2003-1129.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00014255_001.jpg)
Comments:This basin matches a water cistern donated by A.W. Franks (Reg.no. F.588). An identical basin described as having “The Potentate” design is in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts ( see Yale 2011, p. 596)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:chinoiserie shell
Dimensions:Height: 36.50 centimetres Length: 64.90 centimetres Weight: 23 kilograms Width: 44.60 centimetres
Description:
Very large famille rose basin. Deep oval body with inside four rococo cartouches enclosing two pairs of seated chinoiserie figures drinking tea and smoking a long clay pipe, after a design influenced by Cornelius Pronk. Floral garlands at the broad flaring rim. The exterior has similar garlands on a diaper-ground and a band of scallop shells at the shoulder with turquoise diaper. (Related to Franks 588).
IMG
Comments:This basin matches a water cistern donated by A.W. Franks (Reg.no. F.588). An identical basin described as having “The Potentate” design is in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts ( see Yale 2011, p. 596)
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