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SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
Details
A RARE IRON-RED-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE SHALLOW BOWL
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The shallow bowl is decorated on the interior with a central chrysanthemum roundel surrounded by a ruyi-head band and eight lotus sprays supporting Buddhist emblems, all reserved on an iron-red ground. The exterior is decorated with four lingzhi, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Jiajing mark in underglaze blue.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam.
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The shallow bowl is decorated on the interior with a central chrysanthemum roundel surrounded by a ruyi-head band and eight lotus sprays supporting Buddhist emblems, all reserved on an iron-red ground. The exterior is decorated with four lingzhi, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Jiajing mark in underglaze blue.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
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. 58, no. 62
Sir M. Butler, `Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing,’ Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1984-1985, vol. 49, London, 1986, pp. 11-39, pl. 24
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 506, pl. III.5.17a-c
Sir M. Butler, `Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing,’ Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1984-1985, vol. 49, London, 1986, pp. 11-39, pl. 24
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 506, pl. III.5.17a-c
Exhibited
The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarde, Netherlands, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, 1986
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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