A SMALL AND RARE IRON-RED-DECORATED `DRAGON’ JAR AND COVER

Lot 2918
29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
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Lot 2918 | A SMALL AND RARE IRON-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON’ JAR AND COVER
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HKD 80 000 – 120 000
A SMALL AND RARE IRON-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON’ JAR AND COVER

TIANQI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1621-1627)

The jar is decorated with two five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst flames and clouds. The dome-shaped cover is similarly decorated and surmounted by a red knob.

6 in. (15.3 cm.) high





Provenance

The Butler Family Collection, UK



Literature

The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 143 and 185, no. 170

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. 41, no. 38

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 13, pl. III.1.4



Exhibited

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, 29 January - 29 March 1981

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