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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION PREDOMINANTLY ACQUIRED IN FRANCE IN THE 1980s AND THE 1990s

A POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED BASIN
17TH CENTURY
The dish is decorated in iron red, green and yellow enamels to the interior with a central roundel enclosing a scholarly figure in contemplation beside a smoking censer and vase of peacock feathers. The everted rim is painted with four cartouches enclosing prunus, chrysanthemums, peonies and lotus, all reserved on a floral diaper ground.
11 ½ in. (29.1 cm.) diam.

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