Lot 83. A 'clair-de-lune'-glazed washer, tangluoxi, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period (1662-1722), 9.3 cm diam. Sold for €10,240. © Bonhams 2001-2024

Of compressed circular form with rounded sides and a wide incurved rim, covered overall with an even pale lavender-blue glaze, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York
A European private collection

Note: Brushwashers were an integral part of the scholar's accoutrements. Under the Kangxi emperor, small porcelain vessels made for the scholar's table were produced in two new glazes, referred to as peachbloom and clair-de-lune, however, far fewer brush washers with a clair-de-lune glaze appear to have been made.
Compare with two similar clair-de-lune brushwashers, bearing Kangxi marks and of the period, the first illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collecion, Geneva, 1999, p.57; the second in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.no.64.279.2. A similar clair-de-lune washer was sold in Sotheby's New York, 13 September 2017, lot 7.

Bonhams. CHINESE ART, 12 June 2024, Paris