Lot Essay
Similar Longquan celadon brush washers are in museum collections such as the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by W. Watson and S. Pierson in Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997, p. 34, col. pl. 284. See, also, one in the Art Institute of Chicago from the Tyson Collection, illustrated by Y. Mino and K. Tsiang in Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, pp. 178-179, no. 71.