J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty
March 18 - April 8, 2002
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A WHITE PORCELAIN BRUSHWASHER
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
the shallow circular bowl applied with a flat flange handle of lobed crescent shape projecting from the rim, decorated on the handle in thread-relief with a fish holding a foliate scroll in its mouth, raised on a small neatly pared ring foot, the transparent glaze of pale ivory tone, the base unglazed revealing the chalk white-ware of Huozhouyao type.
Width over handle 4 1⁄8 inches (10.6 cm)
A very similar bowl with moulded flange handle from the Collection of Sir Herbert Ingram, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is illustrated in the catalogue of the 1986 Ashmolean Museum exhibition entitled From Silver to Ceramic, pl. 35, together with a silver bowl of the same form from the Kempe Collection. Another white bowl of this form and design from the Bernat Collection was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1947, and published in the catalogue entitled Chinese Ceramics Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, no. 77.
