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A FINE AND RARE ‘EIGHT BUDDHIST The present brushwasher’s ethereal yet striking periwinkle
EMBLEMS’ CLAIR-DE-LUNE GLAZED BRUSH glaze reflects Qing dynasty advancements utilizing the
WASHER potential of cobalt blue glazes. Lighter shades of blue,
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD such as clair-de-lune and lavender blue glazes, were made
using smaller amounts of finely ground cobalt. Also more
of shallow cylindrical form, the short straight sides crisply translucent, these glazes showed off the fine white porcelain
molded to the exterior in low relief with the ‘Eight Buddhist body underneath, which was perfected during the Qing
Emblems’ amid a stylized floral scroll, covered overall in a dynasty.
pale lavender-blue glaze pooling to a deeper periwinkle in the A similar celadon-glazed washer from the Yongzheng period,
recesses, the base unglazed save for the countersunk circle albeit raised on tripod feet and with a white interior, is in the
at the center with a six-character seal mark in underglaze collection of The Tsui Museum of Art, illustrated in The Tsui
blue Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong
Diameter 8 in., 20.2 cm Kong, 1995, pl. 22, and was exhibited in Splendours of the
Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1992, cat. no. 209.
PROVENANCE
Compare also a celadon-glazed Qianlong period example
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, March 2004.
with the Buddhist emblems on the interior, sold in our Hong
Kong rooms, 10th April 2006, lot 1622.
LITERATURE
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg $ 30,000-50,000
Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 155.
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來源
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2004年3月
出版
Karen Thomson 編，《The Blema and H. Arnold
Steinberg Collection》，蒙特利爾，2015年，圖版155

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