A RARE COPPER-RED-DECORATED `DRAGON’ VASE

Los 2970
29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
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Los 2970 | A RARE COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON’ VASE
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A RARE COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON’ VASE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The slightly tapered body is decorated on the exterior with nine writhing four-clawed dragons amidst flames, their eyes highlighted in underglaze blue. The dragons are arranged in pairs confronting one another, with the exception of a smaller one on the short trumpet neck chasing a flaming pearl. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.

17 in. (43.1 cm.) high





Provenance

The Butler Family Collection, UK



Literature

M. Butler, B. Harrisson, and Princessehof Museum, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 1986, p. 91, no. 120

Sir M. Butler, 'Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing,’ Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1984-1985, vol. 49, London, 1986, pp. 11-39, pl. 43

Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 200, no. 140

Sir M. Butler and Q. Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, Shanghai, 2006, pp. 294-295, no. 109

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 466, pl. III.4.140



Exhibited

The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarde, Netherlands, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, 1986

Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990

Shanghai Museum, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, 1 December 2005- 28 February 2006
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