Lot 2911
2911
A VERY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
A VERY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
A VERY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A VERY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

TIANQI PERIOD (1621-1627)

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A VERY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
TIANQI PERIOD (1621-1627)
The heavily potted bowl is decorated on the exterior with various scenes depicting figures on rafts, figures traveling on horse back and by foot, figures playing chess, a fortress and a pagoda with boats in the foreground. The mouth rim is decorated with six hexafoil panels enclosing rabbits and alternating with ruyi-heads, all reserved on a diaper ground. The interior is similarly decorated on the centre with a riverscape scene including figures, pavilions, fortress and pagoda. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
17 3/8 in. (44.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
Sir M. Butler and Q. Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, Shanghai, 2006, pp. 68-69, no. 4
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 87, pl. III.1.34
Exhibited
Shanghai Museum, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, 1 December 2005- 28 February 2006

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Lot Essay

Bowls of this size with finely painted landscape scene from Tianqi period are very rare. The design is brilliantly executed in cobalt blue, depicting a city wall, possibly the Great Wall, with pagodas and flags amidst clouds. The border at the rim is with bracket-lobed cartouches enclosing rabbit motif and reserved on a diaper ground; such decoration was popular during the Tianqi period. See a blue and white foliate dish from the Tianqi period with similar rabbit motif against a diaper ground in the Palace Museum, Beijing, as shown on the museum's website.

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