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Book Review
Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 723-724
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Reviewer:
Glaister, Helen (Glaister, Helen)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues
collectors and dealers:
Butler, Sir Michael
subjects:
Collections, Private / Chinese art / Porcelain
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain By Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler. 576 pp. incl. 850 col. ills. (Ad Ilissvm, London, 2021), £175. ISBN 978–1–912168–16–3. | :
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Attributed works:
4. Saucer-dish showing a romantic scene from the play Mudan ting (The Peony Pavilion) in which Du Liniang (‘bridal Du’) dreams of the handsome scholar Liu Mengmei. Qing dynasty, Shunzhi reign, 1644–61. Porcelain decorated in underglaze blue, diameter 16 cm. (Butler Collection).