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CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
Details
AN ENAMELLED 'BIRD AND FLOWER’ HEXAGONAL DISH
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The interior is decorated on the centre with a bird perched on a blossoming peony branch emerging behind a rock within a double-line border. The cavetto and everted rim are further decorated with floral sprays of lotus, prunus and chrysanthemum. The base is inscribed with a one-character mark reading fu, 'fortune’.
8 1/8 in. (20.5 cm.) diam.
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The interior is decorated on the centre with a bird perched on a blossoming peony branch emerging behind a rock within a double-line border. The cavetto and everted rim are further decorated with floral sprays of lotus, prunus and chrysanthemum. The base is inscribed with a one-character mark reading fu, 'fortune’.
8 1/8 in. (20.5 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. 68, no. 30
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.1.282
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.1.282
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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