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SIGNED HUI MENGCHEN, EARLY QING DYNASTY (1664-1911)
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AN YIXING STONEWARE BRUSH WASHER, XI
SIGNED HUI MENGCHEN, EARLY QING DYNASTY (1664-1911)
The vessel is elegantly potted with three steps tapering from the foot in imitation of an archaistic bronze vessel. The sides are applied with a pair of ring-handles suspending from taotie-masks. The body is potted with rich reddish clay and decorated with yellow sand imitating ‘pear-peel’ effect. The base bears a four-character seal mark reading Mengchen shoushi, which can be translated as ‘handmade by Mengchen’.
3 3/8 in. (8.6cm.) wide
SIGNED HUI MENGCHEN, EARLY QING DYNASTY (1664-1911)
The vessel is elegantly potted with three steps tapering from the foot in imitation of an archaistic bronze vessel. The sides are applied with a pair of ring-handles suspending from taotie-masks. The body is potted with rich reddish clay and decorated with yellow sand imitating ‘pear-peel’ effect. The base bears a four-character seal mark reading Mengchen shoushi, which can be translated as ‘handmade by Mengchen’.
3 3/8 in. (8.6cm.) wide
Provenance
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London.
Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 230.
Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 230.
Literature
P. Moss, 'I-Hsing-Tea-Taste', in Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, vol. X, no. 3, September 1978, p.7, fig.7.
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