A fine and rare white-glazed 'mountain' combined waterpot and brushrest, Late Ming dynasty | 明晚期 白釉五峰水滴兼筆擱

Sotheby’s London, 12th June 1990, lot 234.

A hill-shaped brushrest with carved decoration under a greenish glaze and inscribed with a date equivalent to 1402 A.D., was sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 258, from the Edward T. Chow Collection.

A closely related white-glazed piece in the Guangdong Provincial Museum, probably also made to serve as a waterpot, carved with irregular peaks outlined in underglazed brown, and inscribed with a date equivalent to 1443 A.D., is illustrated by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, pl. 116.

Compare also a Xuande blue and white brushwasher with carved mountain range of high relief, sold in these rooms, 29th April 1997, lot 541.

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倫敦蘇富比1990年6月12日，編號234