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    Masters of porcelain and theatre

    Dec 15, 2021 3 minutes
    Edited by Kate Green KG

    Leaping the Dragon Gate

    Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler (Paul Holberton, £175)

    THIS catalogue is a fitting memorial to the other life of Sir Michael Butler (1927–2013), one of Britain’s most remarkable diplomats. Between 1980 and 1983, when working 80- or 90-hour weeks with all-night sessions to negotiate Margaret Thatcher’s rebate from the European Community budget, he found time to buy 156 pieces of 17th-century Chinese porcelain throughout Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He had bought his first

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