A RARE ENAMELLED BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH

Lot 2919
29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
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ID 861937
Lot 2919 | A RARE ENAMELLED BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH
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HKD 8 000 – 12 000
A RARE ENAMELLED BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH

TIANQI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1621-1627)

The interior is decorated with blossoming chrysanthemum branches and a butterfly in flight above a seven-character poetic inscription, all within a single line border at the rim.

6 1/2 in. (16.5 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. 22 (part)

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 152, pl. III.1.226



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