The basket is finely crafted in the form of a basket decorated with blue, green, turquoise, puple, pink, yellow, coral and white enamel. Height 21 cm.
Dent, loss of decoration.
Property of a private Swedish collection.
Compare with a silver gilt enamel boat sold at Christies, lot no 270. May 2019, Live auction 17113. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art.
China has a long tradition of creating these exquisite works in enamel, filigree, parcel gilt, silver. One most interesting set is the Toilet set of Catherine the Great, made in China 1740-50, in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, comprising 32 objects.