A RARE CELADON-GLAZED PEACH-FORM BRUSHWASHER

YUAN/MING CERAMICS PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF MOSSETTE LEVAUR KEYZER-ANDRE

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A RARE CELADON-GLAZED PEACH-FORM BRUSHWASHER
POSSIBLY YUAN/MING DYNASTY

Formed as a hollowed whole peach with small aperture at the top, joined to an adjacent peach-form receptacle of equal size, modeled with a spray of leaves issuing from the stem and continuing over the rim of the vessel, covered in an attractive, thick, bluish-green glaze stopping short of the flat foot and exposing the orange-burnt gray clay body
5in. (12.7cm.) across

Lot Essay

Compare the related peach-form Longquan brushwasher of similar size dated to the Ming dynasty, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 508. See, also, the peach-form Longquan brushwasher, of more flattened shape, dated to the Yuan dynasty, in Selected Specimens of Chinese Porcelain, Taipei, 1959, no. 37