A RARE LARGE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED `MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ DISH

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Lot 2964 | A RARE LARGE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ DISH
A RARE LARGE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ DISH

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The deep-sided dish is finely decorated on the interior with pencilled lines and blue wash, depicting pavilions set within a mountainous landscape, where details of leaves and furniture inside pavilions are highlighted in copper-red, all below a single-line border at the rim.

13 in. (33 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. 89, no. 106

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. 30

Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 138, no. 87

J. B. Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, New York, 1995, pp. 68-69, no. 17

Sir M. Butler and Q. Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, Shanghai, 2006, pp. 210-211 , no. 69

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 408, pl. III.4.57



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 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990

China Institute Gallery, New York, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, 22 April- 5 August 1995

Shanghai Museum, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, 1 December 2005- 28 February 2006
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