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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A SMALL AND RARE IRON-RED-DECORATED `DRAGON’ JAR AND COVER
TIANQI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1621-1627)
Details
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
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
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
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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