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1143 C. Edward Wells, Bridgewater, Connecticut.
A RARE JUNYAO FLOWER-FORM BRUSH WASHER Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections, by 1965.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent from within
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234) the family.
The washer has rounded sides molded as six petals spiraling upwards from
the center to the notched rim and is set on one side below the rim with a fat EXHIBITED
barbed and lobed fange. The washer is covered inside and out with a crackled
glaze of pale milky blue color that thins to mushroom on the raised areas, and New York, Columbia University, February 1965.
also covers the base which bears the remains of fve spur marks. Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics form the
7 in. (19 cm.) wide with fange Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.

$12,000-18,000 Compare the very similar Junyao brush washer in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Chun Ware of the Sung Dynasty, Hong Kong,
1961, pls. 27, 27a, where a small loop handle can be seen under the fange.
See, also, the Junyao brush washer of this type with a plain rounded rather
than fower-form body, dated Northern Song-Jin dynasty, illustrated in
Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 494.

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