A underglaze-blue and red and green-glazed 'klapmuts' bowl, Transitional period, circa 1630-1643. Estimate $3,000 - $5,000. Price Realized $3,000 . Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The small bowl is decorated at the center of the interior with a medallion containing a scroll with a tassel, enclosed by pendent flowering peony branches below the bracket-lobed rim. The exterior is decorated with two branches bearing small red buds. 5 ½ in. (14 cm.) diam.

Provenance: Collection of Sir Michael Butler.
Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., London, 1987.
Collection of Julia and John Curtis.

Notes: A similar bowl in the Butler Family Collection, decorated in the center with a leaf and stylized auspicious emblems, is illustrated by Barbara Harrisson in Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683, a Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Leeuwarden, 1986, p. 66, no. 74, and by Maura Rinaldi in Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, London, 1989, p. 193, pl. 256.

Christie's. AN ERA OF INSPIRATION: 17TH-CENTURY CHINESE PORCELAINS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JULIA AND JOHN CURTIS, 16 March 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza