ID 861486
Lot 2963 | A BLUE AND WHITE 'MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ SAUCER DISH
Estimate value
HKD 40 000 – 60 000
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is decorated on the interior in pencilled line and blue wash with a fisherman in his boat and three figures on the promontory, all set within a mountainous riverscape and enclosed by a double-line border and a band of pine needles and dots at the rim. The exterior is decorated with three branches, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 144, no. 93
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 459, pl. III.4.128
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Kangxi period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Kangxi period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Address of auction |
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