ID 861506
Lot 2940 | AN ENAMELLED FOLIATE-RIMMED DISH
Estimate value
HKD 7 000 – 10 000
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
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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