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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BRUSH WASHER, TANGLUO XI

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The compressed globular body is covered on the exterior with a glaze of soft rose color
suffused with pale green speckles and thinning to a pale pink tone on one side of the body.
The interior and base are white.
3º in. (8.3 cm.) diam.
$100,000-150,000

PROVENANCE

Bluett & Sons, London (according to label).
Mary Stillman Harkness (1874-1952) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1950.
This type of brush washer is described as being of ‘gong’ shape, or tangluo xi, as it has a
very compressed body. Similar Kangxi peachbloom brush washers are illustrated by S.
Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1904, pl. 7, fg. 1; by M. Beurdeley and G.
Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 98; by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur
Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, nos. A 306, A 309; in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo,
1983, p. 34, no. 27; and in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Dynasty Monochromes
in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, no. B 582. See, also, the
washer of this type included in the 1978 Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, Ming
and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, no. 53. See,
also, the peachbloom washer of this type from the Edward T. Chow Collection sold at
Christie’s New York, 19 March 2008, lot 636.
For further discussion of peachbloom-glazed wares of the Kangxi period,
see the note to lot 913.
清康熙 豇豆紅釉鏜鑼洗 三行六字楷書款
來源
Bluett & Sons，倫敦。
Mary Stillman Harkness（1874-1952）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1950年。

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