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886 A LONGQUAN CELADON HEXAFOIL 南宋ǭ龍泉窯青釉葵ऑ洗
BRUSH WASHER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The washer has slightly flaring short sides that rise to a wide
mouth divided into six lobes framed by notches in a raised band
around the exterior rim and with corresponding ribs on the
interior. It is covered overall with an even sea-green glaze, with
the unglazed foot rim burnt orange during the firing.
4º in. (10.8 cm.) diam., brocade box
$25,000-35,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4883.
A Longquan celadon brush washer of this lobed form and size, in
the National Palace Museum. Taipei, is illustrated in Gugong Song
ci tulu: Longquan yao, Ge yao, ji qita geyao (Illustrated Catalogue of
Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Lung-
ch’üan Ware, Ko Ware and Other Wares), Taipei, 1974, no. 19.
See, also, the Longquan celadon washer of very similar form in
the Tokyo National Museum, published in Illustrated Catalogues of
Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 126,
no. 502; and another very similar Longquan celadon brush washer
in the Nakamura Kinenkan, Kanazawa, illustrated by G. Hasebe in
Sekai tįji zenshĿ (Ceramic Art of the World), vol. 12, Song Dynasty,
Tokyo, 1977, col. pl. 78.

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