Brush Washer with Lotus Maker: Unknown

10th–11th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Medium

Porcelain with incised decoration under glaze (Ding ware)

Dimensions

3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (1.9 × 11.5 cm)

Credit Line

Wayland Wells Williams, B.A. 1910, Collection, Gift of Mrs. Frances Wayland Williams

Accession Number

1947.74

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Walter Höchstädter (1914–2007), New York; purchased in July 1940 by Wayland Wells Williams (1888–1945), New Haven, Conn.; Frances Wayland Williams; gift in 1947 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • David Ake Sensabaugh, The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2004), 17, 43, no. 20, fig. 7.
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 149, no. 293, ill.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

dishes, utilitarian objects

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