A PEACHBLOOM BRUSHWASHER

QING MONOCHROMES

Details

A PEACHBLOOM BRUSHWASHER
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The compressed body covered on the exterior with a pale copper-red glaze suffused with darker mottling and large copper-green areas around the shoulder, some glaze crackling at the white rim and interior (rim cracks, interior adhesions polished); together with a pale peachbloom beehive waterpot incised with faint dragon roundels (rim crack); a small globular waterpot with copper-green-suffused peachbloom glaze; and a copper-green-suffused peachbloom-glazed circular seal-paste box and cover, all with Kangxi marks in underglaze blue, but of later date
4¾, 5 1/8, 3¾ and 2¾in. (12.2, 13, 9.5 and 7cm.) diam. (4)

Provenance

Compressed brushwasher: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, no. 9 Stephen Junkunc, III

Further details

See illustration of two

Lot Essay

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 Percival David Foundation, London. The brushwasher in the Metropolitan Museum is illustrated with a group of peach-bloom-glazed vessels made for the scholar's table, including a beehive waterpot, Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramcis, New York, 1989, rev. ed., p. 237, no. 236