A large cloisonné enamel hexagonal 'lotus and chi dragon' basin


Kangxi Of lobed hexagonal form with a lipped rim, the circular and inner straight wall is well painted a layer of red lacquer, the broad flange rim with six panels of stylised full-face horned chi dragons in sapphire enamel flanking stylised red stylised shou characters against a blue ground, the exterior sides and underside of the rim decorated with a broad band of lotus scroll in white, red, yellow, green and sapphire enamel, slightly domed base and edge of the rim gilded, wood stand. 47cm (18 1/2in) wide. (2).
|清康熙 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝番蓮紋折沿葵口盆Cloisonné basins painted with lacquer in the interior, such as the present lot, are rare. Compare with a related cloisonné basin, second half 17th century, in the Uldry Collection with the same shape but with chi dragon and shou characters on the interior, illustrated in Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989, no.177. Compare also with two similarly shaped basins with different decoration in the interior, Kangxi, in Les Arts Décoratifs-musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, illustrated in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dyansties, New York, 2011, pp.135 and 137.A related example was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3593.