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This brush washer has an especially beautiful glaze, of the soft bluish 侈口，折沿，平底，圈足。通體施青釉，惟足沿無釉。
tone which has traditionally been much prized by connoisseurs. Fine
glaze color and texture appear to be a characteristic of the few examples 此種形式的折沿洗十分珍罕，充分呈現宋代單色釉簡練大方之美感。臺北
of this particular form of brush washer preserved in museum collections. 故宮博物院館藏一件近似但尺寸稍大之例 (口徑16.8公分)，同器亦見於乾
A slightly larger, but similarly proportioned Longquan brush washer in 隆朝繪製之《精陶韞古》冊頁（圖一），兩者均著錄於《得佳趣-乾隆皇
the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in 帝的陶瓷品味》，臺北，2012年，224-5頁，編號104。
Porcelain of the National Palace Museum - Lung-ch’üan Ware of the Sung
Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1962, p. 61, pls. 18 & 18a. Another Longquan
brush washer is illustrated in a leaf from a Qianlong-period album
entitled Refned Ceramics of Collected Antiquity, also in the collection of
the National Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Obtaining Refned Enjoyment:
The Qianlong Emperor’s Taste in Ceramics, Taipei, 2012, pp. 224-25, no.
104. (Fig. 1) An even larger, but somewhat less successfully proportioned
Longquan brush washer from the Qing Court Collection is in the
collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 33 - Porcelain of the Song
Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 145, no. 130. The Beijing brush
washer also has a fne bluish glaze, but with some crackle reminiscent
of Guan ware. Another larger vessel of this shape, but with a metal rim
around its mouth, also in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated, op.
cit., p. 12, no. 8. This washer, also from the Qing Court Collection, has
a crackled glaze, dark body and was fred on spurs. It has therefore been
attributed to the Guan kilns.

A Longquan brush washer of this form is depicted in an imperial scroll
dated by inscription to the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728) in the Percival
David Foundation. (Fig. 1) The scroll, entitled Guwan tu (Scroll of
Antiquities) purports to depict items from the imperial collection. The
washer appears to be of similar color to the present vessel and is painted
with a crackled glaze.

A glaze similar to that on the current vessel can be seen on another
similarly shaped washer in the Percival David Foundation. This Longquan
washer has an uncrackled glaze, and a copper band has been applied to
its mouth rim, probably to disguise minor damage. See Masterpieces of
Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Collection, Osaka, 1998, p. 53,
no. 23. Vessels of similar shape and fne bluish glaze have also been
excavated from the Dayao kiln site. See Longquan qingci yanjiu, Zhejiang
xian qinggongye ting, 1989, pl. 6, no. 1. Similar Southern Song vessels have
also been excavated in Sichuan province. A larger vessel and two smaller
washers excavated in 1974 from a Yuan tomb in Yuanyichang, Dongxi,
Jianyang county are illustrated in Longquan Celadon - The Sichuan Museum
Collection, Macau, 1998, pp. 130-31, no. 36, and pp. 232-33, nos. 97
and 98, respectively. A similar vessel, but with somewhat more sloping
sides, is in the Cleveland Museum of Art. See J. Neils (ed.), The World of
Ceramics, Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1982, p.
105, no. 109.

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