SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

Similar Longquan celadon brushwashers are in museum collections such as the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by W. Watson and S. Pierson in Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997, p. 34, col. pl. 284. See, also, one in the Art Institute of Chicago from the Tyson Collection, illustrated by Y. Mino and K. Tsiang in Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, pp. 178-179, no. 71; one in a private Japanese collection, illustrated in Tokubetsuten: Sensei, bansei to Ryūsen-yō no seiji (Special Exhibition: Sensei, Bansei and Celadon of Longquan Kiln), Izumi, 1996, p. 52, no. 49; and one in the Idemitsu Museum, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, col. pl. 96. A similar example was sold at Christie's New York, 13 September 2019, lot 1045.

Very similar Longquan celadon brush washers were excavated in 1991 from a Song dynasty hoard at Jinyucun, Suining, Sichuan province, and are illustrated in Fūlin sareta Nansō tōji ten (Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics: A Thirteenth-Century “Time Capsule”), Tokyo, 1998, p. 38, nos. 30-32.