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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A RARE INCISED COPPER-RED-DECORATED `DRAGON’ BOWL
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Details
A RARE INCISED COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON’ BOWL
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowl is decorated on the exterior with two striding five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls, reserved on an incised ground of crashing waves on rocks emerging from the short foot. The interior is repeated with the same motif within a roundel on the centre, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue.
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam.
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowl is decorated on the exterior with two striding five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls, reserved on an incised ground of crashing waves on rocks emerging from the short foot. The interior is repeated with the same motif within a roundel on the centre, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue.
8 1/4 in. (21 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. 467, pl. III.4.141
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