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6. A Longquan Celadon Brushwasher
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)

with a translucent pale bluish-green glaze all over, continuing across the base, pooling to a more
intense color around the well and thinning to let the pearl-gray stoneware show through at the
down-turned edge of the lip, the steeply sloping flat sides angled in sharply at the base and resting
on an undercut wide ring foot, the exposed stoneware at the rim of the foot burnt reddish-tan.

Diameter 5 ⁄8 inches (14.9 cm)
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Similar Longquan celadon dishes discovered in a Southern Song hoard at Jinyucun, Suining, Sichuan province in 1991
are illustrated in the catalogue of the travelling exhibition Fūlin sareta Nansō toji ten (Newly Discovered Southern Song
Ceramics: A Thirteenth Century “Time Capsule”), Tokyo, 1998, p. 38, nos. 30–32. Another similar example is illustrated in
Longquan yao yanjiu (The Research of Longquan Kiln), Beijing, 2011, p. 391, pl. 6, described as a brushwasher.
Other similar examples are in the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated by Pierson and McCausland, Song Ceramics:
Objects of Admiration, London 2003, pp. 32–33, no. 7; in the Art Institute of Chicago, from the Tyson Collection, illustrated by
Mino and Tsang in Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, pp. 178–179, no. 71; and in the
Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, col. pl. 96.
南宋 龍泉青瓷洗 徑 14.9 厘米