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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A BLUE AND WHITE `MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ SAUCER DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Details
A BLUE AND WHITE 'MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ SAUCER DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is decorated on the interior in pencilled line and blue wash with a fisherman in his boat and three figures on the promontory, all set within a mountainous riverscape and enclosed by a double-line border and a band of pine needles and dots at the rim. The exterior is decorated with three branches, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm.) diam.
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is decorated on the interior in pencilled line and blue wash with a fisherman in his boat and three figures on the promontory, all set within a mountainous riverscape and enclosed by a double-line border and a band of pine needles and dots at the rim. The exterior is decorated with three branches, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
8 7/16 in. (21.4 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. 144, no. 93
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 459, pl. III.4.128
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 459, pl. III.4.128
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
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