Lot Essay
This rare form exists under ge, guan and ru-type glazes.
Cf. other published Qianlong-marked examples, such as the ru-type brushwasher illustrated by John Ayers, Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. III, no. A339; another was included in the Arts Club of Chicago exhibition, Catalogue, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilyn Alsdorf, 1970, no. C70 and sold in these Rooms, 23 March 1993, lot 737. A Qianlong guan-type example is illustrated in Qing porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong from the Palace Museum Collection, 1989, pl. 129. A Yongzheng-marked brushwasher of this form, covered in a ru-type glaze in the Musee Guimet, Paris, was included in the O.C.S. Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, Catalogue, pl. 92, no. 275
Cf. other published Qianlong-marked examples, such as the ru-type brushwasher illustrated by John Ayers, Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. III, no. A339; another was included in the Arts Club of Chicago exhibition, Catalogue, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilyn Alsdorf, 1970, no. C70 and sold in these Rooms, 23 March 1993, lot 737. A Qianlong guan-type example is illustrated in Qing porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong from the Palace Museum Collection, 1989, pl. 129. A Yongzheng-marked brushwasher of this form, covered in a ru-type glaze in the Musee Guimet, Paris, was included in the O.C.S. Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, Catalogue, pl. 92, no. 275