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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-MOUTH VASE
WANLI-TIANQI PERIOD (1573-1627)
Details
A BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-MOUTH VASE
WANLI-TIANQI PERIOD (1573-1627)
The bulbous body is decorated with a continuous scene depicting a figure carrying a sword on his back on the rocky promontory, with a fisherman in a boat nearby. The garlic-mouth is decorated with overlapping lappets.
12 in. (30.5 cm. high)
WANLI-TIANQI PERIOD (1573-1627)
The bulbous body is decorated with a continuous scene depicting a figure carrying a sword on his back on the rocky promontory, with a fisherman in a boat nearby. The garlic-mouth is decorated with overlapping lappets.
12 in. (30.5 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. 100, no. 40
Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 42, no. 6
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 84, pl. III.1.31
Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 42, no. 6
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 84, pl. III.1.31
Exhibited
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, 29 January- 29 March 1981
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
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