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WANLI-TIANQI PERIOD (1573-1627)
Details
A MINIATURE BLUE AND WHITE STEM DISH
WANLI-TIANQI PERIOD (1573-1627)
The shallow dish is supported on a splayed pedestal foot, and the interior is decorated with a stylised ruyi-head on the centre, encircled by composite floral sprays. The exterior is decorated with five dragon roundels reserved against a reticulated ground, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal four-character Chenghua mark.
3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) diam.
WANLI-TIANQI PERIOD (1573-1627)
The shallow dish is supported on a splayed pedestal foot, and the interior is decorated with a stylised ruyi-head on the centre, encircled by composite floral sprays. The exterior is decorated with five dragon roundels reserved against a reticulated ground, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal four-character Chenghua mark.
3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 144, pl. III.1.139
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
Brought to you by
Marco Almeida (安偉達)
SVP, Senior International Specialist, Head of Department & Head of Private Sales