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A SMALL GUANYAO RU-TYPE BRUSH WASHER AN UNUSUAL ENAMELED CRACKED-ICE-GROUND
Qing Dynasty ‘BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS’ SLENDER OVIFORM VASE
The brush-washer of alms-bowl-form and imitating Song dynasty Jiaqing underglaze-blue six-character mark and possibly of the
ruyao, the pale celadon glaze with a bluish tinge and and overall light Period (1796-1820)
crackle of differing tones, the glaze covering the entire body, including The entire exterior painted in multi-color enamels over an iron-red
the rounded everted foot rim, the base with ‘sesame-seed’ spurs. cracked-ice-pattern ground, with butterflies, peony, magnolia, plum
5 1/2in (14cm) across blossom, and other flowers in bright colors including iron-red, green,
yellow, turquoise and aubergine, a thin molded ridge at the base of
$4,000 - 7,000 the neck, the foot rim unglazed and the base with a vertical under-
glaze-blue mark in regular script.
9 1/2in (24.1cm) high
清 仿汝窯水洗

$4,000 - 6,000
During the eighteenth century the Jingdezhen kilns produced a wide
range of Song-inspired ceramics. For a Guan-type alms bowl of the 五彩冰梅蝴蝶紋瓶 《大清嘉慶年製》款
18th century, see Bonhams, London, 3 November 2014, lot 31. For
an example of a Ru Guanyao brush washer from the Northern Song For an underglaze-copper-red and blue and white vase with a pattern
Dynasty, see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 28 September 2017, lot 5. of cracked-ice with prunus flowerheads dated to the 18th/19th
century, see Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2018, lot 8084. For a
Ming Dynasty gourd-shaped ewer with polychrome decoration of
cracked-ice-pattern and floral sprays in smaller panels, see A & J
Speelman, Chinese Sculpture and Works of Art, London, 2002,
pp.60-61, no. 27.

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