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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A BLUE AND WHITE BULBOUS JAR
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
Details
A BLUE AND WHITE BULBOUS JAR
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The jar is decorated on the exterior with bamboo and blossoming branches of prunus, peony and chrysanthemum, with a bird and two butterflies in flight above. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The jar is decorated on the exterior with bamboo and blossoming branches of prunus, peony and chrysanthemum, with a bird and two butterflies in flight above. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
M. Butler, B. Harrisson, and Princessehof Museum, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 1986, pp. 82-83, no. 100
Sir M. Butler, `Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing,’ Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1984-1985, vol. 49, London, 1986, pp. 11-39, pl. 37
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 307, pl. III.3.56
Sir M. Butler, `Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing,’ Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1984-1985, vol. 49, London, 1986, pp. 11-39, pl. 37
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 307, pl. III.3.56
Exhibited
The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarde, Netherlands, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, 1986
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