A RUSSET AND YELLOWISH BOWENITE BRUSHWASHER

细节

A RUSSET AND YELLOWISH BOWENITE BRUSHWASHER
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Of rounded oval outline, the sides of the thick-walled body rising up to an incurved rim from a foot ring of irregular outline surrounding a spurious Qianlong four-character mark, da Qing Qianlong, carved in a line on the base, the softly polished stone of yellowish tone with opaque mottling throughout and with added russet coloring--4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) long, wood stand

拍品专文

Compare the similar brushwasher in jade from the T.B. Walker Foundation, with a possibly apocryphal mark, Qianlong yushang, included in the exhibition, Chinese Jade from Han to Ch'ing, The Asia Society, New York, 1980, Catalogue no. 4, where James Watt dates it Qing (18th-19th centuries)