A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT - photo 1
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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT

Lot 3043
30.11.2023 11:15UTC +08:00
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HKD 75 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 1076079
Lot 3043 | A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT
Estimate value
HKD 30 000 – 50 000
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT

MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

The flat mouth rim is inscribed with a four-character inscription reading wuwei tiaohe, ‘harmonizing the five flavours’,

2 ¾ in. (7 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. 40, no. 4

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 145, pl. III.1.142



Exhibited

Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Historical era:Ming dynasty
Place of origin:China, Eastern Asia, Asia
Category:Jar
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Bottles, jars & flasks
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