Live Auction 1119Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A YIXING STONEWARE BRUSH WASHER, BIXI
Lot 285

A YIXING STONEWARE BRUSH WASHER, BIXI

18TH CENTURY

Closed14 May 2013

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GBP 18,750

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A YIXING STONEWARE BRUSH WASHER, BIXI
18TH CENTURY
The vessel is naturalistically shaped as half a peach stone, with the interior covered in a smooth olive-green glaze and the exterior delicately moulded and decorated with red flecks to simulate the surface of the stone.
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) long

With Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 2011.

Specialist note

See a very similar brush washer also modelled as half a peach stone, but with an inscription to the rim, which is in the Percival David Collection at the British Museum, London, illustrated in Hobson, R. L., Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David, London, 1934, plate CLXXVI, p. 177.