A RARE CARVED DING 'CHILONG' BRUSH WASHER, NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A RARE CARVED DING 'CHILONG' BRUSH WASHER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The brush washer is finely potted with gently rounded, shallow sides rising to an unglazed rim mounted with a copper band. The interior is fluently carved with a coiled chilong, and the washer is covered inside and out with a glaze of creamy ivory color which pools slightly to a darker shade in the recesses and above the foot, and continues over the flat base.
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat Collection.
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 7 November 1980, lot 113.

Literature
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Exhibition of the Chinese Ceramics Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, 1947, no. 71.
The Currier Gallery of Art, Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1959, no. 11.
Smith College Museum, Chinese Art. An Exhibition of Paintings, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1962, no. 114.
Sir Harry Garner and Margaret Medley, Chinese Art, vol. III, London, 1969, p. 128, reel 17, no. 6.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 30-31, no. 5.

Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Exhibition of the Chinese Ceramics Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, 9 September to 19 October 1947.
The Currier Gallery of Art, Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty, Manchester, New Hampshire, 11 April to 31 May 1959.
Smith College Museum, Chinese Art. An Exhibition of Paintings, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1962.
On loan: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.