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Source Description
This brush rest, shaped like a mountain range, is covered with a thick and soft gray-blue crackled Guan ware glaze that pools in the deeper areas, giving the mountain range a hazy appearance as if enshrouded in white mists. Guan ware was produced in the imperial kilns in Hangzhou, the Southern Song dynasty capital.
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Document identity
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134861
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Brush Rest
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134861
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object
title
Brush Rest
description
This brush rest, shaped like a mountain range, is covered with a thick and soft gray-blue crackled Guan ware glaze that pools in the deeper areas, giving the mountain range a hazy appearance as if enshrouded in white mists. Guan ware was produced in the imperial kilns in Hangzhou, the Southern Song dynasty capital.
date
1127–1279
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CC0
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en
wikidata
Q80027575
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Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 2.8 x 7.6 cm (1 1/8 x 3 in.); Overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
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Southeast China, Zhejiang province, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)
accession
1957.42
Source extras
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glazed stoneware, Guan ware
tombstone
Brush Rest, 1127–1279. Southeast China, Zhejiang province, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). Glazed stoneware, Guan ware; diameter: 2.8 x 7.6 cm (1 1/8 x 3 in.); overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1957.42
collection
China - Song Dynasty
didYouKnow
There are twelve "hills" on this mountain-shaped brush rest.
citations
citation
Beurdeley, Michel. <em>The Chinese Collector Through the Centuries, from the Han to the 20th Century</em>. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1966.
page_number
No. 105, p. 243
citation
Kleinhenz, Henry J. “Porcelains for Imperial Use: The Sung Dynasty.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 4 (April 1978): 135–150.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 145; Reproduced: p. 150a, fig. 19, a
citation
Williams, Marjorie. <em>Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 50, p. 67
citation
Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 334, no. 172
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:53:31.252000
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134861
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Chinese Art
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China - Song Dynasty
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glazed stoneware, Guan ware
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