EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Major Exhibitions
1986 Chinese Porcelain, the Transitional Period 1620-82: a selection from the Michael Butler Collection in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Musées Royaux in Brussels, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
1990–92 Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, travelling to twelve museums in the USA ending in the Frick in New York. Purchase this catalogue »
1994 Musée Baur in Geneva with supplementary catalogue to 1990 catalogue
2002 Treasures from an Unknown Reign: The Shunzhi Period, travelling to Charlottesville, Dallas and Honolulu. Purchase this catalogue»
2005–06 Exhibition Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, in the Shanghai Museum, China and in 2006 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2008 Late Ming Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Collections in the National Museum of Luxembourg
Essays and Lectures
Sir Michael Butler, ‘Chinese Porcelain at the End of the Ming’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1983–84, pp. 32–62
Sir Michael Butler, ‘Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 48, 1984–85, pp. 11–39
Michael Butler, ‘Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period (1620–83): A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection’, Orientations, vol. 17, no. 9, September 1986, pp. 407–11
Michael Butler, ‘Literati on a Transitional Wucai Jar’, Oriental Art, vol. XXXIV, no. 4, Winter 1988–89,p. 244
Sir Michael Butler, ‘The Dating of Early Qing Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection’, Aziatische Kunst, December 1988, pp. 7–10
Sir Michael Butler, Margaret Medley and Stephen Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990
Sir Michael Butler, ‘Neglected Splendours: Porcelain from the First Thirty Years of the Qing Dynasty’, Bulletin of the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, no. 10, 1992–94, pp. 38–45
Sir Michael Butler, ‘Dated Pieces from the Butler Family Collection of 17th Century Chinese Porcelain’, Oriental Art, vol. XL, no. 3, 1994, pp. 7–14
Sir Michael Butler, ‘The Discovery of Shunzhi Porcelain’, Oriental Art, vol. XLIX, no. 2, 2003, pp. 40–48
Michael Butler, ‘The Chronology of 17th Century Chinese Porcelain’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 71, 2006–07, pp. 79–87