TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, SHUNZHI PERIOD, C. 1644-1655

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, SHUNZHI PERIOD, C. 1644-1655
The deep, waisted body decorated with a blossoming and budding branch on one side and a bird and insects in flight above a leafy plant on the reverse, all below a band of incised foliate meander at the rim, raised on a tall spreading foot decorated with a flame border
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A cup of the same rare shape and with related decoration of bird, flowers and insects is illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, et al., Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Virginia, 1990, p. 112, no. 65.

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