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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
巴特勒家族珍藏
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AN ENAMELLED `BIRD AND FLOWER’ 明崇禎 五彩花開富貴紋葵口盤
HEXAGONAL DISH
款識：福
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The interior is decorated on the centre with a bird perched on a 來源:
blossoming peony branch emerging behind a rock within a double- 巴特勒家族珍藏，英國
line border. The cavetto and everted rim are further decorated
with floral sprays of lotus, prunus and chrysanthemum. The base is 展覽:
inscribed with a one-character mark reading fu, ‘fortune’.
8¿ in. (20.5 cm.) diam. 美國12家博物館巡展，《Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain
from the Butler Family Collection》，1990年
HK$15,000-25,000 US$2,000-3,200
出版:
P R O V E NAN C E : 巴特勒爵士、M. Medley 及S. Little合著，《Seventeenth Century
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection》，亞歷山大，
E X H I B I T ED : 維吉尼亞州，1990年，頁68，編號30
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, 甘淑美及巴芙蓮合著，《鯉躍龍門–邁克爾‧巴特勒爵士珍藏十
Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 七世紀中國瓷》，倫敦，2021年，頁157，圖版III.1.282
1990
L I T E R AT U R E :
Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese
Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990,
p. 68, no. 30
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael
Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London,
2021, p. 157, pl. III.1.282

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