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Source Description
This example of a tangluo xi or gong-shaped brush washer is covered with a peach bloom glaze on the outside and a white glaze inside. Its glaze is a muted red peach bloom with subtle mottling. The shallow brush bath has a compressed rounded body and wide inverted mouth. The finest of peach bloom wares date to the latter half of the Kangxi reign (1662-1722), produced at the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. The glaze's delicate modulation of color suited its application on sets of petite porcelains for the scholar's writing table, including small flower vases, brush washers, and boxes for seal paste.
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Document identity
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23767
label
Brush Washer
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object
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23767
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normalized
title
Brush Washer
description
This example of a tangluo xi or gong-shaped brush washer is covered with a peach bloom glaze on the outside and a white glaze inside. Its glaze is a muted red peach bloom with subtle mottling. The shallow brush bath has a compressed rounded body and wide inverted mouth. The finest of peach bloom wares date to the latter half of the Kangxi reign (1662-1722), produced at the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. The glaze's delicate modulation of color suited its application on sets of petite porcelains for the scholar's writing table, including small flower vases, brush washers, and boxes for seal paste.
provenance
William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1710-1722
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CC0
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en
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brush washers
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1
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Diam: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm)
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Chinese
inscriptions
[Reign Mark] In blue underglaze: da qing kang xi nian zhi
dynasty
Qing Dynasty
reign
Kangxi (1662-1722)
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porcelain with peach bloom glaze
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6238
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CHN
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none
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