ID 1076010
Lot 3033 | A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY’ BOWL
Estimate value
HKD 15 000 – 25 000
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
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Ming dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Ming dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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