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1102 This brush washer is made of ‘marbled’ or xipi
(rhinoceros hide) lacquer. This technique involved
A MARBLED XIPI LACQUER BRUSH WASHER the application in layers of diferent colors of
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY lacquer over an uneven ground. It is then polished
so that the diferent colors appear in a marbled
The brush washer is of shallow circular form, pattern over the surface of the vessel.
with a wide mouth and raised lip. The exterior is
covered with an abstract marbled design of red, Compare, a cushion shaped circular box and cover
ochre, green, and black lacquers, and the interior made in the same xipi technique, dated 16th-17th
is covered in black lacquer. century from the Jaehne Collection in the Newark
Museum, and illustrated by V. Reynolds and Y. Pei
8¿ in. (20.6 cm.) diam., Japanese box in Chinese Art from the Newark Museum, China
House Gallery/China Institute in America, New
$7,000-9,000 York, 1980, p. 45, no. 24. Compare, also, another
similarly decorated fat marbled lacquer round
PROVENANCE box, 16th century, illustrated by Sir Harry Garner in
Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, p. 119, pl. 58.
Nicholas Grindley, London, 1998.
Private collection, New York. 明十七世紀初 犀皮筆洗
LITERATURE
N. Grindley, Nicholas Grindley, ‘June 2010’, no. 4.
