A bronze wash basin. 18th century - image-1

Lot 274 Dα

A bronze wash basin. 18th century

Auction 1053 - overview Cologne
03.06.2015, 14:00 - Chinese Decorative Arts, Tibet/Nepal, India, South-East Asia
Estimate: 650 € - 800 €
Result: 744 € (incl. premium)
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A bronze wash basin. 18th century

A bronze wash basin on a flat base, inside at the centre a horse rider and attendants in relief and engraving, surrounded by lotus and scrolls in engraving, and with flower sprays, lingzhi and butterflies in niello on the rim. 18th century.
Height 9.8 cm; diameter 41.5 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Western Germany

Literature

Sarah Handler, Ablutions and Washing Clean: the Chinese Washbasin and Stand, in: Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 1:4 (Autumn 1991), p. 29; Sarah Handler, Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2001, fig. 20.7 und 20.8; Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Peking 1944 /Taipei 1992, plate 145, fig. 120; Wang Shixiang and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago/San Francisco 1995, p. 178-179, No. 83