YONGZHENG (1723-35) OR EARLIER

Details

A SMALL BLUE GLASS WASHER
YONGZHENG (1723-35) OR EARLIER
The circular washer with a flat base tapering to the neck and with an everted rim, the centre of the base with a shallow circular recess, the transparent glass of light blue tone and with a soft finish
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs. Walter Sedgwick Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 2nd July 1968, lot 43
Prof. and Mrs. P. H. Plesch Collection, G.h.7
Christie's London, 16th November 1998, lot 294

Exhibited

The Scholar's Desk Exhibition, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, in conjunction with the Oriental Ceramics Society, October 1979, no. 30

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The shape of this washer is closely linked with Syrian glass and metalwork of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and is also copied on fifteenth century Chinese blue and white wares. Compare the blue and white bowl in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, illustrated in Garner, Oriental Blue and White, pl. 22b, which has a similar shape to the present lot. It has therefore been suggested that the dating of this washer could be as early as the fifteenth century.

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