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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
1159
A SMALL GUAN-TYPE
LOTUS-LEAF-FORM BRUSH WASHER
18TH CENTURY
The washer is naturalistically modeled as a lotus
leaf with curled edges, the veins excecuted in slip
on the base. It is covered overall in a pale blue-grey
crackle-sufused glaze.
3Ω in. (8.9 cm.) long
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Stephen Junkunc, III (1904-1978) Collection.
EXHIBITED 1159
Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics
from the Prehistoric Period through Ch’ien Lung,
14 March - 27 April 1952.
LITERATURE
Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics
from the Prehistoric Period through Ch’ien Lung,
Los Angeles, 1952, no. 113.
清十八世紀 仿官釉荷葉筆洗

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
1160
AN INSCRIBED DEHUA BOWL
17TH CENTURY
This bowl is thickly potted in a rounded shape
and raised on a fat, circular foot. One side incised
in running script with a poetic inscription, and is
covered inside and out with a glaze of ivory tone.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.
$2,000-4,000

PROVENANCE
Stephen Junkunc, III (1904-1978) Collection.
The poetic inscription, entitled “Cloud”,
can be loosely translated as “snap one’s fngers
at social living, and wear a contented expression
for six springs”.
十七世紀 德化白釉詩文盌

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