A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY’ BOWL

Lot 3033
30.11.2023 11:15UTC +08:00
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HKD 22 680
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ID 1076010
Lot 3033 | A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY’ BOWL
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HKD 15 000 – 25 000
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY’ BOWL

CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark.

4 ¾ in. (12 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. 22, no. 6

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 250, pl. III.2.76



Exhibited

The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarde, Netherlands, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, 1986
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