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A GE-TYPE BRUSH WASHER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
Length 3½ in., 8.9 cm
PROVENANCE
Peter Boode, London.
Collection of Dr. Carl Kempe (1884-1967).
Sotheby’s Paris, 12th June 2008, lot 91.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe
745 Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 185.

$ 2,000-3,000
清十八 / 十九世紀 仿哥釉小洗

來源
Peter Boode，倫敦
卡爾肯普博士 (1884-1967) 收藏
巴黎蘇富比2008年6月12日，編號91
出版
喜龍仁，《Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe
Collection》，斯德哥爾摩，1964年，圖版185

746 747
A GUAN-TYPE BALUSTERVASE A GOLD CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER 遼 金鏨卷草紋蓋筒
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY LIAO DYNASTY
Length 4½ in., 11.4 cm 來源
Height 8¼ in., 21 cm
Admor Antiques，奧克布魯克，2007年7月
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE
Admor Antiques, Oak Brook, July 2007.
Denver Art Museum, Denver (according to label).
A nearly identical case to the present was excavated from
$ 2,000-3,000 the tomb of the Princess of Chen and Xiao Shaoju, dated to
1018 or earlier, and included in Gilded Splendor, Treasures
清十九世紀 仿官釉鋪首耳瓶 of China’s Liao Empire (907-1123), Asia Society, New York,
2006, cat. no. 24, where the author discusses the social
來源 significance attached to ownership of these valuable cases,
丹佛藝術博物館，丹佛（標籤） and the possible uses for the form. Sometimes described as
a ‘needle case’, it seems likely that these containers held a
variety of small tools and implements for personal use. The
form enjoyed enduring popularity among the elite, a Ming
dynasty example, now in the Nanjing Museum, excavated
from the tomb of Ma Rui (buried 1627) is illustrated in Power
and Glory: Court Arts of the China’s Ming Dynasty, Asian Art
746 Museum, San Francisco, 2016, cat. no. 17.
$ 10,000-15,000

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