A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BRUSHWASHER, TANGLUO XI

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

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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BRUSHWASHER, TANGLUO XI
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The compressed globular body covered on the exterior with a glaze of crushed strawberry-red and mottled greyish-green color, the interior glazed white
5 5/8 in. (11.6 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Enid Lodge and the Late Brodie Lodge, Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1968, lot 127.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, 18-19 May 1982, lot 264.

Exhibited

Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, Oriental Ceramic Society, October 1948, no. 77.
The Chinese Scholar's Desk, 17th to 18th Century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1979, no. 24.

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Lot Essay

This type of brush washer is described as of 'gong' shape, or tangluo xi, as it has a very compressed body. It belongs to a group of eight vessel shapes referred to as the ba da ma, 'Eight Great Numbers', all of which are covered in a peachbloom glaze. Two Kangxi-marked brush washers of this type were sold in these rooms, 19 March 2008, lot 636, and 15 September 2009, lot 445.

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