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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
*150
AN YIXING STONEWARE BRUSH WASHER, XI
SIGNED HUI MENGCHEN, EARLY QING DYNASTY (1664-1911)
The vessel is elegantly potted with three steps tapering from the foot in imitation of an archaistic bronze
vessel. The sides are applied with a pair of ring-handles suspending from taotie-masks. The body is potted
with rich reddish clay and decorated with yellow sand imitating ‘pear-peel’ effect. The base bears a four-
character seal mark reading Mengchen shoushi, which can be translated as ‘handmade by Mengchen’.
3 3/8 in. (8.6cm.) wide
£30,000-50,000 US$39,000-64,000
€33,000-55,000
PROVENANCE:
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London.
Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 230.
Property from a Princely Collection.
(mark)
LITERATURE:
P. Moss, 'I-Hsing-Tea-Taste', in Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, vol. X, no. 3,
September 1978, p.7, fig.7.

貴族私人舊藏
清早期 惠孟臣作宜興紫砂掺沙梨皮小水盂 「孟臣手製」篆文方印
來源:
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 倫敦
香港邦瀚斯, 2011年11月28日, 拍品230號
出版:
,
P. Moss，《I-Hsing-Tea-Taste》 Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, vol. X, no. 3, 1978年9月, 7頁, 圖版7
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