A BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH

Lot 2926
29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
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ID 861856
Lot 2926 | A BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH
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HKD 8 000 – 12 000
A BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH

TIANQI PERIOD (1621-1627)

The dish is decorated on the interior with a recumbent deer resting beneath a pine tree, enclosed by floral sprays at the rim. The exterior is decorated with three prunus sprays, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Hongwu mark.

8 in. (20.5 cm.) diam.





Provenance

The Butler Family Collection, UK



Literature

Sir M. Butler, 'Chinese Porcelain at the End of the Ming', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1983- 84, vol. 48, London, 1985, pp. 33-62, pl. 5 (part)

M. Butler, B. Harrisson, and Princessehof Museum, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 1986, pp. 31, no. 21

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 148, pl. III.1.188



Exhibited

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



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