A fine and rare Imperial 'clair-de-lune' brushwasher, China, underglaze blue Kangxi six-character mark and period. Estimate 80000/100000 €. Sold 200.000 €. Photo Nagel

The compressed globular body with wide mouth set on a short wedge foot, covered inside and out in a light blue glaze, the base glazed white. D. 11,8 cm. Good condition

Note: Two Kangxi brushwashers with 'clair-de-lune' glazes are illustrated in Ayers, The Baur Collection, Geneva. Chinese Ceramics, vol. III, 1972 no. A 318 and A 320, where Ayers mentions three from the Widener collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Others are illustrated in Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, no. 242, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; in Ayers and Sato, Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 15, 1983, pls. 28 and 29, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei; and one in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, cat.no. 268  

NAGEL. "Asian Art". Sale 722, 06/06/2015