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拍品專文
The brushwasher is described as of 'gong-shape' or tangle xi, as it has heavily compressed sides.
This washer belongs to an exclusive group of eight vessel shapes that are embellished in this extremely desirable peachbloom glaze . Known as the ba da ma or 'Eight Great Numbers', the sets were especially devised in these classic forms to serve as requisite appointments for the Emperor's writing table. Complete sets are extremely rare, with one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1975, pl. 28; and another from the Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 557.
Similar brush washers are illustrated by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1904, pl. 7, fig. 1; by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 98; by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, nos. A 306, A 309; in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, p. 34, no. 27; in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Dynasty Monochromes in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, no. B 582; and one included in the 1978 Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, no. 53. See, also, the example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30 May 2005, lot 1232.
This washer belongs to an exclusive group of eight vessel shapes that are embellished in this extremely desirable peachbloom glaze . Known as the ba da ma or 'Eight Great Numbers', the sets were especially devised in these classic forms to serve as requisite appointments for the Emperor's writing table. Complete sets are extremely rare, with one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1975, pl. 28; and another from the Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 557.
Similar brush washers are illustrated by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1904, pl. 7, fig. 1; by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 98; by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, nos. A 306, A 309; in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, p. 34, no. 27; in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Dynasty Monochromes in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, no. B 582; and one included in the 1978 Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, no. 53. See, also, the example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30 May 2005, lot 1232.