ID 861841
Lot 2912 | AN ENAMELLED 'BIRD AND FLOWER’ HEXAGONAL DISH
Estimate value
HKD 15 000 – 25 000
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The interior is decorated on the centre with a bird perched on a blossoming peony branch emerging behind a rock within a double-line border. The cavetto and everted rim are further decorated with floral sprays of lotus, prunus and chrysanthemum. The base is inscribed with a one-character mark reading fu, 'fortune’.
8 1/8 in. (20.5 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. 68, no. 30
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.1.282
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
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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