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Size: W5cm

Signed and dated: Yuan-Ming Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 600,000

This small washer is exquisitely potted in quatrelobed shape with indented corners. The gently flaring round sides elegantly rise from a counter-sunken base. It is covered overall including the base with an opaque glaze of soft greyish tone suffused with an intricate matrix of iron-wire crackle and golden threads.
Yuan and Ming dynasty square-form Ge-ware washers are very rare. A Ge-ware cinquefoil brush washer dated to the Yuan-Ming dynasty was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong，27 November 2013，lot 3279. Another washer，but of circular shape and dated to the Yuan dynasty，14th century，is in the Qing Court Collection，and is published in the National Palace Museum，Precious as the Morning Star: 12th- 14th Century Celadons in the Qing Court Collection，p. 275，no. IV-34.
Provenance
An Europe Private Collection