KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

This type of brush washer is described as being of 'gong' shape, or tangluo xi, as it has a very compressed body. Similar Kangxi peachbloom brush washers are illustrated by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1904, pl. 7, fig. 1; by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 98; by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, nos. A 306, A 309; in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, p. 34, no. 27; and in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Dynasty Monochromes in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, no. B 582. See, also, the washer of this type included in the 1978 Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, no. 53. See, also, the peachbloom washer of this type from the Edward T. Chow Collection sold at Christie’s New York, 19 March 2008, lot 636.

For further discussion of peachbloom-glazed wares of the Kangxi period, see the note to lot 913.