19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE BRUSH WASHER
19TH CENTURY
Carved as a large shallow leaf with incurved rim surrounded by variously shaped water and ink pots formed by two large flowers, a fruit, and buds, all borne on leafy stems that form an openwork pattern between the vessels, a quadrilobed, compartmentalized water pot at one end carved in the center with a blossom and at the interstices with leaves
10 in. (25.5 cm.) long, wood stand

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 3 August 1974, lot 131.

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Lot Essay

It is unusual to find a jade brush washer of such shallow and wide proportions, and with so many receptacles. The addition of the Mughal type carving on the base of the brush washer suggests that it, and perhaps its shape or function, may have been influenced by Indian carvings. It is possible that it may also have functioned as a palette.

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