A YIXING STONEWARE BRUSH WASHER, BIXI

18TH CENTURY

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A YIXING STONEWARE BRUSH WASHER, BIXI
18TH CENTURY
The vessel is naturalistically shaped as half a peach stone, with the interior covered in a smooth olive-green glaze and the exterior delicately moulded and decorated with red flecks to simulate the surface of the stone.
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) long

Provenance

With Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 2011.

Literature

Ben Janssens Oriental Art, The Scholar's Desk, 6-19 November 2011, London, 2011, p. 62, pl. 30.

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Lot Essay

See a very similar brush washer also modelled as half a peach stone, but with an inscription to the rim, which is in the Percival David Collection at the British Museum, London, illustrated in Hobson, R. L., Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David, London, 1934, plate CLXXVI, p. 177.

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