SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

A Longquan celadon brush washer of this lobed form and size, in the National Palace Museum. Taipei, is illustrated in Gugong Song ci tulu: Longquan yao, Ge yao, ji qita geyao (Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Lung-ch’üan Ware, Ko Ware and Other Wares), Taipei, 1974, no. 19. See, also, the Longquan celadon washer of very similar form in the Tokyo National Museum, published in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 126, no. 502; and another very similar Longquan celadon brush washer in the Nakamura Kinenkan, Kanazawa, illustrated by G. Hasebe in Sekai tōji zenshū (Ceramic Art of the World), vol. 12, Song Dynasty, Tokyo, 1977, col. pl. 78.