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318 A PEACHBLOOM- ⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䅴䅳㈲䛶䤉䦩≄
GLAZED BRUSH Ȩ๔⌲Ꮴ⛆Ꭱ㸪ȩ
WASHER

KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD ҳ⎽
Diana D Ashcroft 佐询
delicately potted with low rounded sides
⧍侚豤㺢嫲2000䎃11剢14傈管贫165
incurved at the mouth and supported on a
low tapered foot, the exterior covered with a
characteristically mottled crimson-red glaze ᆂ㻪
transmuting to pale green tones particularly շ䫵〢輑➛:悦誩㛔询䐁擳櫙㐼㾝ո豤㺢嫲
around the widest part of the body, speckled 秣秉2014䎃管贫5
with tiny dots of emerald green, the interior
and recessed base left white, the base with a
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six-character reign mark in underglaze blue Je% rey P StamenCynthia Volk ⿻⧋❠俛
Diameter 4¾ in., 12.1 cm շ俒ꅷ⼾搭:悦誩㛔询䐁擳渿⚆櫙ո䋒ス
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PROVENANCE
Collection of Diana D. Ashcroft.
Sotheby’s London, 14 November 2000, lot 165.

EXHIBITED
Embracing Classic Chinese Culture: Kangxi
Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection,
Sotheby’s, New York, 2014, cat. no. 5.
LITERATURE
Je% rey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin
Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese
Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection,
Bruges, 2017, pl. 18.
$ 50,000-70,000

Peachbloom brush washers are rarely as the fugitive copper-lime pigment, it is believed no. 236. A very similar washer with celadon-
successfully " red as the present piece, which to have been sprayed via a long bamboo tube toned accents amidst the rose-pink glaze from
is covered with a lustrous, vibrant copper-red onto a layer of transparent glaze and then " xed Avery Brundage is now in the collection of the
glaze # ecked with pale green. Notoriously with another layer, so as to be sandwiched San Francisco Asian Art Museum (acc. no.
di! cult to achieve due to the temperamental between two layers of clear glaze. The spotted B60P1785).
nature of the copper pigment, the attractive green # ecking, referred to as pingguo jing
A " ne green-# ecked Kangxi-marked brush
glaze is only found on a small group of vessels ‘apple green’, is possible through a technique
washer of this type sold in these rooms on
for the scholar’s table and is one of the most using varied concentrations of copper that,
16th September 2014, lot 154. Compare also
iconic groups of porcelain created under the when exposed during " ring, oxidize to form
examples sold from the collection of E. T.
Kangxi Emperor. green spots and modulation.
Chow, sold most recently in our Hong Kong
Copper-red glazes had been largely abandoned Examples of this celebrated type of rooms, 8th April 2009, lot 1657; another
at Jingdezhen since the early Ming dynasty peachbloom brush washer are represented from the H.M. Knight collection, included in
and were revived and drastically improved only in many of the world’s " nest museums the exhibition 4000 Jaar Aziatische Kunst,
during the Kangxi reign. Recent research by including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1954, cat. no. 300,
Peter Lam and other leading scholars indicate New York, The Palace Museum, Beijing sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1982,
that the famous ‘peachbloom’ group was and the Sir Percival David Collection at the lot 263; and another vessel published in Regina
produced during the early years of the Kangxi British Museum, London. The washer in the Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang
period under the supervision of the skilled Metropolitan Museum is illustrated with Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 820. Other
Zang Yingxuan, who was sent to Jingdezhen a group of peachbloom-glazed vessels in examples sold in our Hong Kong rooms on 5th
in 1681 to oversee the rebuilding of the kilns Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese October 2011, lot 1997 and one from the J.M.
and serve as imperial supervisor. To manage Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., p. 237, Hu collection on 9th October 2012, lot 105.

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