Lot 1379. A rare blue and white basin, Shunzhi period (1643-1661). Diameter 34.7 cm. Estimated price €5.000 - €6.000. Result: €6.200. Courtesy Lempertz

With a brown rim, decorated with a lady resting her chin on her hand dreaming of her love, Du Liniang, the main character from the Kunqu-opera Mudan ting (The Peony Pavilion) by Tang Xianzu, and the Three Abundances (sanduo), leafy, fruiting branches of peach, pomegranate and the Buddha's hand citron and bamboo to the outside. Four-character mark Yu tang jia qi (Fine vessel for the Jade Hall). Channelled footring.

Provenance: Private collection, Bochum

Literature: For the form compare: Sir Michael Butler, Margaret Medley, Stephen Little, Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, Alexandria 1990, p. 146, plate 95

Lempertz. Asian Art II China, Tibetan/Nepalese Art, 18.06.2017, 14:00, Brussels