NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)

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A RARE JUNYAO FLOWER-FORM BRUSH WASHER
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)
The washer has rounded sides molded as six petals spiraling upwards from the center to the notched rim and is set on one side below the rim with a flat barbed and lobed flange. The washer is covered inside and out with a crackled glaze of pale milky blue color that thins to mushroom on the raised areas, and also covers the base which bears the remains of five spur marks.
7 in. (19 cm.) wide with flange

Provenance

C. Edward Wells, Bridgewater, Connecticut.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections, by 1965.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent from within the family.

Exhibited

New York, Columbia University, February 1965.
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics form the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar Junyao brush washer in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Chun Ware of the Sung Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1961, pls. 27, 27a, where a small loop handle can be seen under the flange. See, also, the Junyao brush washer of this type with a plain rounded rather than flower-form body, dated Northern Song-Jin dynasty, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 494.

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