Leaping the Dragon Gate : The Sir Michael Butler Collection of 17th-Century Chinese Porcelain (9781912168163)
This book celebrates the most important collection of seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain in the world, assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. Butler's passion for porcelain is reflected in the more than eight hundred pieces he collected and lived with at his home and private museum in Dorset. The pots (as he called them), many of extreme rarity and exquisite quality, give testimony to the incredible depth of knowledge he acquired over five decades and his outstanding contribution to research and education in this previously neglected field of study. This lavish and comprehensive collection covers most types of porcelain produced in the Jiangxi province of Jingdezhen during the seventeenth century. The variety of Butler's acquired pieces showcases the innovative spirit and high skill level of the Jingdezhen potters and painters during the period when they were released from the controls of Imperial patronage, between the end of the reign of the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1620 and the reestablishment of the Imperial kilns by the Qing Emperor Kangxi in 1683. Almost all of the collection is presented here in six hundred full-color illustrations, including many previously unpublished pieces, in a catalogue raisonné that demonstrates the stylistic and qualitative evolution that occurred in Chinese porcelain production in the seventeenth century.
Product details
- Hardback | 384 pages
- 245 x 300mm
- 30 Nov 2021
- Ad Ilissum
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 600
- 1912168162
- 9781912168163
- 1,304,615
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