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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JAR
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE XINCHOU CYCLICAL YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1721 AND OF THE PERIOD
Details
A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JAR
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE XINCHOU CYCLICAL YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1721 AND OF THE PERIOD
The exterior is decorated with a mountainous landscape scene with a pavilion and figures, accompanied by a fifteen-line inscription of the poem Zuiweng tingji, 'Essay on the Pavilion of the Drunken Old Man', followed by the cyclical date and two seals.
19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm.) high
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE XINCHOU CYCLICAL YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1721 AND OF THE PERIOD
The exterior is decorated with a mountainous landscape scene with a pavilion and figures, accompanied by a fifteen-line inscription of the poem Zuiweng tingji, 'Essay on the Pavilion of the Drunken Old Man', followed by the cyclical date and two seals.
19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm.) high
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. 464, pl. III.4.138
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