Basin
date: label: Date
content: 1685–1700
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Unknown, Chinese
label: After
content: Nicolas Arnoult, French, active 1680 – 1710
notes: label: Description
content: Chinese export blue and white deep bowl, or basin. The central scene of the interior is painted in deep underglaze blue with European court ladies standing on a terrace strewn with flowers, each holding a floral sprig to smell while a servant to one side bears a basket of more flowers. The exterior is decorated with freely painted with floral sprigs.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Jingdezhen, China
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2020-4-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: basin
label: Type
content: basin
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: porcelain
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 7 × 34.3 cm (2 3/4 × 13 1/2 in.)