ID 1076079
Lot 3043 | A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT
Estimate value
HKD 30 000 – 50 000
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 |
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| 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 |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| 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 |
| Address of auction |
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