AN ENAMELLED FOLIATE-RIMMED DISH

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29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
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ID 861506
Lot 2940 | AN ENAMELLED FOLIATE-RIMMED DISH
AN ENAMELLED FOLIATE-RIMMED DISH

CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

The interior is decorated with pine tree, bamboo, prunus (‘The Three Friends of Winter’) and a bird in flight, surrounded by twelve alternating panels of floral sprays and diaper in the cavetto. The exterior is incised with floral sprays and butterflies above flower petals encircling the foot. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.

5 3/4 in. (14.7 cm.) diam.





Provenance

The Butler Family Collection, UK



Literature

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.1.279



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