Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection

Butler, Michael Sir (catalogue); Medley, Margaret and Little, Stephen (essays)

Published by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990

About this Item

English text; Paperback; 21.5 x 28 cm ; 0.864 Kg; 208 pages with 142 pieces of Transitional Period porcelain in black-and-white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior. Edge wear. The interior has an ex-library stamp on title page and a tiny mark on the following page. The remaining interior is in good condition.; Exhibition catalogue divided in nine groups: Group I-Intimations of transition contains eight pieces that still bear elements of the sixteenth-century style, but also point toward the innovation and variety of the seventeenth century. c. 1610-25; Group II-Porcelain for the Japanese Market includes late Ming blue-and-white and enamelled wares used mainly for the tea ceremony. c. 1620-40; Group II-High Transitional wares, of which the blue-and-white are those that first attracted European interest in the period at the beginning of this century. c. 1635-43; Group IV-The twilight of Ming focuses on blue-and-white pieces recovered from a Chinese junk that sank near Indonesia, probably in the last year of the Ming dynasty, and includes two contemporary Kraak pieces. c. 1643-45; Group V-"Late transitional" blue-and-white and "transitional wucai" pieces, mainly from the period of the first Qing emperor Shunzhi (1644-61). c. 1645-65; Group VI-Ming/Qing divide includes monochromes and early Qing enamelled pieces, a very rare group mainly from the Shunzhi period. c. 1645-65; Group VII-Master of the Rocks pieces, a group of early Qing works, of which the painting style was inspired by the brilliant scroll painters of the first half of the century. c. 1640-74; Group VII-Transformation of forms contains subsections designed to illustrate the way in which the shapes of seventeenth-century pots evolved over the years. c. 1610-1700; Group IX-Kangxi: The transformation completed has a variety of pieces from the first two-thirds of the Kangxi reign (1662-1721) and gives a partial picture of the extraordinary variety of beautiful objects produced at the end of this amazing century. c. 1662-1700.

Seller Inventory # 1073B

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection
• Publisher: Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Chinese Ceramics
  • Collections and Exhibitions