A BLUE AND WHITE `MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ SAUCER DISH

Lot 2963
29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
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HKD 126 000
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ID 861486
Lot 2963 | A BLUE AND WHITE 'MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ SAUCER DISH
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HKD 40 000 – 60 000
A BLUE AND WHITE 'MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ SAUCER DISH

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
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