Chinese Blue and White Ribbed Basin, Kangxi (1662-1722)

Ref: W491

Archive item - not for sale

Chinese blue and white ribbed basin, Kangxi (1662-1722), of moulded form, decorated to the centre with a pheasant perched upon rockwork between boughs of magnolia and peony, encricled by a narrow key-fret band, the cavetto and rim with twelve curling ruyi-head panels containing peony and other flowers, all against various liewen and cell diaper grounds, the reverse with three boughs of magnolia and peony, the base with a floral spray within double concentric circles

Dimensions:

Diameter: 35 cm. (13 3/4in.)

Condition:

Neatly consolidated and restored forked hairline to the rim and some frits filled

Provenance:

With Edwards of Harrogate label to the base. Edwards was established by Thomas Edwards in 1901. Upon his death in the 1950s, the poet Donald Cowie composed an elegy which included the following lines: 'A master of his trade who'd detect/ The fake blindfolded, and whose nose he'd say/ Would tell him of the silvermark suspect/ Although it were a saleroom's length away;/ Yet never swindling others, and at end/ Regretted as a dealer and a friend'