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Lot Essay
This type of brushwasher is described as of 'gong' shape, or tangluo xi, as it has a very compressed body. It belongs to a group of eight vessel shapes referred to as the badama, 'Eight Great Numbers', all of which are covered in a peachbloom glaze.
Many of the world's great museums have published similar examples of brushwashers, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Palace Museum, Beijing and the Sir Percival David Collection at the British Museum, London. The brushwasher in the Metropolitan Museum is illustrated with a group of peachbloom-glazed vessels made for the scholar's table, including a beehive waterpot, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., p. 237, no. 236. Compare with examples of Kangxi-marked brushwashers of this type sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2009, lot 445, and 16-17 September 2010, lot 1403.
Many of the world's great museums have published similar examples of brushwashers, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Palace Museum, Beijing and the Sir Percival David Collection at the British Museum, London. The brushwasher in the Metropolitan Museum is illustrated with a group of peachbloom-glazed vessels made for the scholar's table, including a beehive waterpot, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., p. 237, no. 236. Compare with examples of Kangxi-marked brushwashers of this type sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2009, lot 445, and 16-17 September 2010, lot 1403.