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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED Notoriously di" cult to achieve due to the Examples of this celebrated type of
BRUSHWASHER temperamental nature of the copper pigment, peachbloom brush washer are represented in
the attractive ‘peachbloom’ glaze is only found many of the world’s Þ nest museums including
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
on a small group of vessels for the scholar’s the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The
delicately potted of compressed circular form, table and is one of the most iconic groups of Palace Museum, Beijing, and the Sir Percival
supported on a shallow tapered foot, the porcelain created under the Kangxi emperor. David Collection at the British Museum,
incurved, rounded sides covered with a rich Recent research by Peter Lam and other London. A closely related washer with strikingly
raspberry-red glaze with copper-red ß ecks, the leading scholars indicates that the famous similar coloration sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
interior and base left white, the base with a six- ‘peachbloom’ group was produced during the 27th April 2003, lot 169; another, formerly in
character mark in underglaze blue early years of the Kangxi period under the the collection of Emily Trevor, sold at Christie’s
Diameter 4⅝ in., 11.7 cm supervision of the skilled Zang Yingxuan, who New York, 19th September 2007, lot 341; a
was sent to Jingdezhen in 1681 to oversee the third, formerly in the collection of Edward T.
PROVENANCE rebuilding of the kilns and serve as imperial Chow sold at Christie’s New York, 19th March
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). supervisor. To manage the fugitive copper- 2008, lot 636; another from the Edward T.
lime pigment, scholars believe that it was Chow Collection sold thrice with us, most
$ 30,000-50,000 sprayed via a long bamboo tube onto a layer of recently in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April
transparent glaze and then Þ xed with another 2009, lot 1657;
㶭⹟䅁ġġġ寯寮䲭慱掄搤㲿 layer, so that the pigment is suspended within and a further
two layers of clear glaze. The spotted green example, from
˪⣏㶭⹟䅁⸜墥˫㫦 ß ecking, referred to as pingguo qing ‘apple the Jie Rui Tang
Ը๕ green’, is possible through a technique using Collection, sold
⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷 varied concentrations of copper that, when in these rooms,
exposed during Þ ring, oxidize to form green 20th March 2018,
spots and modulation. lot 318.

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