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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER’ CONDIMENT POT
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
Details
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.
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
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
Brought to you by
Marco Almeida (安偉達)
SVP, Senior International Specialist, Head of Department & Head of Private Sales