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A PEACH-SHAPED RU-TYPE BRUSHWASHER
YONGZHENG

The shallow vessel is shaped as a large peach issuing from a leafy fruit-laden stem forming a handle at one end, covered overall with a thick greyish-green glaze thinning to brown around the edges of the pointed leaves and gnarled branch, the base with eight spur marks encircling an unglazed circular disc
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Brushwashers of this rare form exist under ge, guan and ru-type glazes.

Cf. a Yongzheng-marked brushwasher of this form, covered in a ru-type glaze in the Musee Guimet, Paris, included in the O.C.S. Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, Catalogue, pl. 92, no. 275. For a guan-type Yongzheng example in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, see Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 254, no. 83.

(US$7,000-8,000)

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