JIN/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

This very rare pomegranate-form combination water pot/brush washer is similar to another, also with Jun glaze, included in the exhibition, Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, 22 July - 11 September 1994, Hong Kong Museum of Art, no. 46. Another combination water pot/brush washer imitating a natural shape is the Southern Song dynasty Guan ware example formed as two side-by-side lotus pods illustrated in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935-6, no. 854, which was on loan from the Chinese Government.