AN ENAMELLED SAUCER DISH

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Lot 2948 | AN ENAMELLED SAUCER DISH
AN ENAMELLED SAUCER DISH

CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

The interior is decorated with bamboo and asters emerging by the side of a relief-decorated rock group with a butterfly in flight above. The base is inscribed with a one-character mark reading ya, 'elegance’.

5 3/4 in. (14.7 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. 61, no. 23

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 155, pl. III.1.257



Exhibited

Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990



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