A FAMILLE VERTE `QILIN’ DISH

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Lot 2930 | A FAMILLE VERTE 'QILIN’ DISH
A FAMILLE VERTE 'QILIN’ DISH

SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)

The dish with rounded sides is decorated on the interior with a ferocious qilin surrounded by flames, looking up towards the sun. The exterior is decorated with four lingzhi above an upward lappets border around the foot.

8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam.





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. 59, no. 65

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. 14

M. Butler, J. B. Curtis and S. Little, Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain 1644-1661, Seattle and London, 2002, pp. 106-107, no. 12

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 351, pl. III.3.99



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 3 museums in the United States, Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain 1644-1661, 2002
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