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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
巴特勒家族珍藏
2960

A RARE INCISED COPPER-RED-DECORATED 清康熙 釉裏紅刻花遊龍戲珠紋盌
`DRAGON’ BOWL
款識：大明宣德年製
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowl is decorated on the exterior with two striding five-clawed 來源:
dragons chasing flaming pearls, reserved on an incised ground of 巴特勒家族珍藏，英國
crashing waves on rocks emerging from the short foot. The interior
is repeated with the same motif within a roundel on the centre, and 出版:
the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark 甘淑美及巴芙蓮合著，《鯉躍龍門–邁克爾‧巴特勒爵士珍藏十
in underglaze blue.
8º in. (21 cm.) diam. 七世紀中國瓷》，倫敦，2021年，頁467，圖版III.4.141
HK$50,000-80,000 US$6,500-10,000

P R O V E NAN C E :
The Butler Family Collection, UK
L I T E R AT U R E :
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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