Rare Chinese Blue and White "Dragon" Brushwasher
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China, dragon brushwasher, upright sides divided into ten bracket-shaped lobes, radiating ribs on interior, flaring at rim, center medallion enclosing five-clawed dragon amid lingzhi-shaped cloud scrolls, underglaze cobalt-blue of rich midnight-blue. Diameter 6 1/2 in. Provenance: Property from the collection of Carl Schimid-Wahlgren, by descent to family member in Washington DC. the exterior with ten quatrefoil panels enclosing alternately leaping and plunging dragons, with another writhing dragon painted ant the base, the underglaze cobalt-blue of rich midnight-blue color with areas of 'heaping and piling', the glaze with a slight bluish tint, the unglazed footrim neatly cut to conforming lobed shape, 6.9 inch diameter. Provenance: Property from the collection of Carl Schimid-Wahlgren, by descent to family member in Washington DC.
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Rare Chinese Blue and White "Dragon" Brushwasher
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