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AN YIXING DOUBLE GOURD-FORM BRUSH WASHER 清早期 宜興紫砂葫蘆水洗
SIGNED CHEN MINGYUAN, EARLY QING DYNASTY (1664-1911) 「陳鳴遠」篆書方印
The vessel is potted in the form of a double-gourd on a leafy vine. A beetle is
depicted amidst six small holes on the leaf. The stoneware is of dark brown 「陳鳴遠作」行書刻款
colour with some pale speckles. The base is inscribed with a four-character
inscription in kaishu which reads Chen Mingyuan zuo (made by Chen
Mingyuan) accompanied by a seal mark.
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) long 來源:
£60,000-80,000 US$79,000-100,000 Hugh M. Moss Ltd, 倫敦, 1970年代初期
€70,000-93,000
香港邦瀚斯2011年11月28日《好善簃珍藏宜興紫砂》，拍
PROVENANCE: 品209
Hugh M. Moss, Ltd., London, early 1970s.
Yixing Stoneware from the Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Hawthorn Collection; Bonhams 貴族私人珍藏
Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 209.
Property from a Princely Collection.
出版: P. Moss, 「I-Hsing-Tea-Taste」, 《Journal of the
LITERATURE:
P. Moss, `I-Hsing-Tea-Taste', in Journal of the International Chinese Snuf Bottle International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society》, 10冊, 編號3,
Society, vol. 10, no. 3, September 1978, p. 6, fg. 3.
1978年9月, 頁6, 圖3.

Chen Mingyuan, the maker of this brush washer, was active during the
Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns in the mid-17th to early 18th century. He was
a highly-celebrated ceramic artist and is generally regarded as one of the
fnest Yixing potters. He was particularly known for his ingenious use of
natural forms, from teapots to models of fruits and nuts.
Chen Mingyuan's skill in carving naturalistic forms from Yixing clay is well
attested by the peach-form cups, lotus leaf-form cups, pomegranate-form
cups, and models of nuts in The Chinese University of Hong Kong illustrated
by Lai Suk Yee and Theresa Bartholomew in The Bei Shan Tang Legacy:
Yixing Zisha Stoneware, Hong Kong, 2015, pp. 354-365 and 368 - 381, nos.
(mark and inscription)
137-142 and 144-151. The double gourd in the current water pot displays
equal artistic skill.

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