A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT BOWL

Lot 2929
29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
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ID 861834
Lot 2929 | A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT BOWL
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HKD 15 000 – 25 000
A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT BOWL

SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)

The bowl is decorated on the exterior with three Buddhist lions amidst peony scrolls, and on the interior with lotus scrolls. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.

7 1/4 in. (18.5 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. 43, no. 42

Sir M. Butler, 'Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing,’ Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1984-1985, vol. 49, London, 1986, pp. 11-39, pl. 16

J. Ayers, M. Medly and N. Wood, Iron in the Fire- The Chinese Potters’ Exploration of Iron Oxide Glazes, London, 1988, p.71, pl. 74

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 358, pl. III.3.106



Exhibited

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

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Iron in the Fire- The Chinese Potters’ Exploration of Iron Oxide Glazes, 10 May- 19 June 1988



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