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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY’ BOWL
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
Details
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUTTERFLY’ BOWL
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark.
4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) diam.
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark.
4 ¾ in. (12 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, p. 22, no. 6
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 250, pl. III.2.76
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 250, pl. III.2.76
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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