A VERY FINE GE-TYPE OCTAFOIL TRIPOD BRUSHWASHER

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A VERY FINE GE-TYPE OCTAFOIL TRIPOD BRUSHWASHER
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The washer has low flaring sides moulded as eight petals below a rounded and everted rim, with three short legs applied to the sides of the base, under a lustrous greyish blue glaze with a network of widely-spaced dark brown crackles, the underside of the feet are unglazed, there is a ring of nine brown-dressed spur marks to the recessed base
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam., box

来源

The J.M. Hu Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's New York, 4 June 1985, lot 65
Robert Chang Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 517
Greenwald Collection, no. 82

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Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, Catalogue, no. 62

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Lobed brushwashers of this kind are based on Song dynasty prototypes, an example of which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 1994, lot 528. These tripod brushwashers with Geyao and Guanyao glazes are relatively rare, even during the Song dynasty as most of the Song brushwashers were made without feet. A number of Guanyao washers of floral form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, 1989, nos. 135-143.

Due to the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors' keen interest in the antique revival, Song glazes were often copied during the Qing dynasty. A Ge-type bulb bowl with a Yongzheng mark in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 9, Kodansha series, no. 274. At some point in the past, an attempt was made to pass off the example in the Victoria and Albert Museum as a Song original as the mark had been ground off the bowl; see the illustration by W. B. Honey in The Ceramic Art of China and Other Countries, pl. 43B.