A small Guan-type lotus-leaf-form brush washer, 18th century
Lot 1169. A small Guan-type lotus-leaf-form brush washer, 18th century; 3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) long. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 12,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.
The washer is naturalistically modeled as a lotus leaf with curled edges, the veins excecuted in slip on the base. It is covered overall in a pale blue-grey crackle-suffused glaze.
Provenance: Stephen Junkunc, III (1904-1978) Collection.
Literature: Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles, 1952, no. 113.
Exhibited: Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, 14 March - 27 April 1952.
Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 13 - 14 September 2018