A BLUE AND WHITE RETICULATED "DEVIL'S WORK" BOWL CIRCA 1640 ...

A BLUE AND WHITE RETICULATED "DEVIL'S WORK" BOWL CIRCA 1640 青花花卉开光碗 约1640年 with five circular medallions of a walled city, an island pavilion, a pavilion in a river landscape, precious objects and trees with birds in flight, all on an openwork cash-form ground between lappets and hexagonal diaper 9cm diameter PROVENANCE: Salvaged by Captain Michael Hatcher in the First Hatcher Cargo, sold by Christie's Amsterdam in their auction of Fine and Important Late Ming ad Transitional Porcelain, The Second and Final Part of the Hatcher Collection, recently recovered from an Asian vessel in the South China Sea, on 12th and 13th June 1984. From the collection of Anne and Gordon Getty. A similar cup is illustrated by Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler in 'Leaping the Dragon Gate', The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Porcelain, 2021, III.1.117 p 138

Estimate:£500

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