Leaping The Dragon Gate The Sir Michael Butler Collection Of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain

British diplomat Sir Michael Butler (1927-2013) assembled the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world, that covers most types of porcelain produced at Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, during the seventeenth century.

This catalogue raisonné features nearly all of the pieces in the collection, presented in sections featuring the main categories of porcelains in the collection: Late Ming, High Transitional, Shunzhi, Early Kangxi, Mid-Late Kangxi, Monochromes, and Famille Verte, as well as disputed pieces.