ID 861857
Lot 2949 | A WUCAI HEXAGONAL DISH
Estimate value
HKD 10 000 – 15 000
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The dish of slightly everted rim is decorated on the interior with blooming flower branches emerging from rocks with a bird in flight. The cavetto is further decorated with three butterflies alternating with floral sprays. The base is inscribed with one character reading fu, 'fortune’.
8 1/2 in. (21.6 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, pp. 32-33, no. 24
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 157, pl. III.1.280
Exhibited
The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarde, Netherlands, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, 1986
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Chongzhen period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Chongzhen period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Address of auction |
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