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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
Lot 144
AN ANNAMESE ENAMELED 'BIRDS AND BUTTERFLY' CHARGER
16th century
20 March 2023, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$1,275 inc. premium
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AN ANNAMESE ENAMELED 'BIRDS AND BUTTERFLY' CHARGER
16th century
With rounded sides and lipped rim and short ring foot, painted in red and green enamels over a thin clear glaze, the interior decorated with five cartouches over 'wave' ground on the wall above a band of 'petal' motifs, a medallion of bird perching on flowering branches with a butterfly nearby, the exterior with repeated lotus lappets, the underside covered with a brown wash and unglazed.
13 3/8in (33.8cm) diam
With rounded sides and lipped rim and short ring foot, painted in red and green enamels over a thin clear glaze, the interior decorated with five cartouches over 'wave' ground on the wall above a band of 'petal' motifs, a medallion of bird perching on flowering branches with a butterfly nearby, the exterior with repeated lotus lappets, the underside covered with a brown wash and unglazed.
13 3/8in (33.8cm) diam
Footnotes
十六世紀 安南紅綠彩花鳥蝶紋大盤
Provenance:
Blitz Oriental Art, Amsterdam (according to label)
來源：
阿姆斯特丹Blitz Oriental Art古董行(根據標簽)
Compare the dish of larger size with closely related decoration, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, illustrated on the museum's website, accession number 2021.17.1.
See also another bird dish of the same size with the addition of underglaze blue outlines to some of the decoration that sold at Christie's London, 7 December 1984, Important Annamese Ceramics: The Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus Collection, lot 106.