Brush Washer
1279-1368 (made)
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Longquan brush washer with rounded sides and narrow spreading flat rim; thin, tapering foot. Stoneware with grey-green cleadon glaze, showing some broad crazing, rather neatly finished round the foot where it burns brown. Inside on the bottom are two fish addorsed in applied moulded relief. On the outside, carved with lotus petal pattern.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Glazed stoneware with applied and carved decoration |
| Brief description | Longquan ware. Brush washer, stoneware with two fish applied under celadon glaze, excavated in the Philippines, China, Yuan dynasty (1279-1936) |
| Physical description | Longquan brush washer with rounded sides and narrow spreading flat rim; thin, tapering foot. Stoneware with grey-green cleadon glaze, showing some broad crazing, rather neatly finished round the foot where it burns brown. Inside on the bottom are two fish addorsed in applied moulded relief. On the outside, carved with lotus petal pattern. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sir John Addis, K.C.M.G. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Locsin, Leandro Oriental ceramics discovered in the Philippines Rutland, Vt., C.E. Tuttle Co., 1967, Plates 53 and 56. |
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| Accession number | FE.49-1975 |
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| Record created | January 8, 2009 |
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