J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS:
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
March 15 - April 13, 2013
9.
A LONGQUAN CELADON BRUSHWASHER
Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1279-1368)
following the form of a wooden basin, with gently rounded flaring sides divided into shallow rounded segments joined by a raised band around the exterior, and showing concave segments on the interior, rising from a broad flat base to a scalloped rim, covered inside and out with a cloudy glaze of bluish-green tone with wide crackle and crazing throughout, the glaze continuing over the wedge-shaped foot enclosing the recessed underside with only a small splash of glaze at the center, the unglazed gray stoneware on the underside fired reddish brown.
Diameter 4 1⁄2 inches (11 cm)
A similar Longquan celadon washer excavated in 1982 at Zibo city, Shandong province, is illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (6) Shandong (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Vol. 6, Shandong Province), Beijing, 2008, p. 179, no. 179, described as a “sugarcane-sectioned washer.”
Another similar example, excavated in 1970 from the Hongguanxiang hoard near Xi’an, is illustrated in Longquan yao yanjiu (The Research of Longquan Kiln), Beijing, 2011, p. 312, pl. 8; and another Longquan celadon washer of similar form discovered in the Sinan shipwreck is illustrated in the catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found Off Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, fig. 132.
元 龍泉青瓷蔗段洗 徑 11 厘米