A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT

Lot 3043
30.11.2023 11:15UTC +08:00
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Lot 3043 | A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT
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HKD 30 000 – 50 000
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT

MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

The flat mouth rim is inscribed with a four-character inscription reading wuwei tiaohe, ‘harmonizing the five flavours’,

2 ¾ in. (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. 40, no. 4

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 145, pl. III.1.142



Exhibited

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