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Lot Essay
The tangle xi or 'gong-shaped washer' is perhaps the most common of the surviving forms from the ba da ma, which is also known as a 'shallow coup' or 'writer's brush bath'.
Similar examples are illustrated, one by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, fig. 236 and Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, Tokyo, 1983, Vol. 15, pp. 34-35, fig. 27, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. An example from the Meiyintang collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 179, pl. 820; another from the Beijing Palace Museum is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 140, col. pl. 123; and by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, nos. A 306 and 309.
Similar examples are illustrated, one by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, fig. 236 and Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, Tokyo, 1983, Vol. 15, pp. 34-35, fig. 27, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. An example from the Meiyintang collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 179, pl. 820; another from the Beijing Palace Museum is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 140, col. pl. 123; and by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, nos. A 306 and 309.