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CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
Details
A RARE ENAMELLED SAUCER DISH
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The dish is moulded with fluted petals in the well and is decorated on the interior with a pond depicting a prawn beside flowering arrowheads, with an insect in flight. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diam.
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The dish is moulded with fluted petals in the well and is decorated on the interior with a pond depicting a prawn beside flowering arrowheads, with an insect in flight. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 71, no. 33
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 156, pl. III.1.271
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 156, pl. III.1.271
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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