A Chinese famille verte-decorated porcelain "Butterflies" dish 五彩蝴碟盘 Kangxi period ???

Decorated with four butterflies among floral sprays, floral reserve and diaper border, floral sprays to underside, stylized conch(?) mark in underglaze blue to underside.

Dia: 8 1/4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Captain and Mrs. Sergius N. Ferris Luboshez, sold Wechsler's, Washington, D.C. March 27, 1999, lot 43

Acquired from the above by the present owner

EXHIBITED:

University of Maryland Art Gallery, "Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection", March 23 - April 30, 1972, p. 85, #157

NOTE:

Captain Sergius N. Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984), was a well-known collector of Chinese art. Born of American parents in England, he taught physics at the University of London, experimenting in the sonar detection of submarines. He also studied law in England, serving as a barrister-at-law, and later as a member of the New York Bar and that of the District of Columbia. Luboshez entered the United States Navy at the outbreak of World War II. After the war, he became general counsel to the Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner of the U.S. Department of State for an area that included China and Japan, then was appointed central field commisssioner with headquarters in Shanghai. His Chinese art collection was primarily assembled during this time (1945-1949). He returned to the United States in 1949. His collection was sold shortly before his death at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York ("Important Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes, and Works of Art: The Collection of Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez, USN (Ret'd)," November 18, 1982).