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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A BLUE AND WHITE `IMMORTALS’ DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Details
A BLUE AND WHITE 'IMMORTALS’ DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is decorated on the interior with Shoulao seated and accompanied by a recumbent deer on one side of the river, and the Eight Daoist immortals standing on the other side of the riverbank. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm.) diam.
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is decorated on the interior with Shoulao seated and accompanied by a recumbent deer on one side of the river, and the Eight Daoist immortals standing on the other side of the riverbank. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.
10 3/4 in. (27.3 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. 401, pl. III.4.45
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Marco Almeida (安偉達)
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