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Jul 26, 2005

May 10, 2022

Brush Rest

1127–1279

Southeast China, Zhejiang province, Southern Song dynasty

(1127–1279)

Glazed stoneware, Guan ware

Diameter: 2.8 x 7.6 cm (1 1/8 x 3 in.); Overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1957.42

Location

003 Special Exhibition Hall

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There are twelve "hills" on this mountain-shaped brush rest.

Description

This brush rest, shaped like a mountain range, is covered with a thick and soft gray-blue crackled Guan ware glaze that pools in the deeper areas, giving the mountain range a hazy appearance as if enshrouded in white mists. Guan ware was produced in the imperial kilns in Hangzhou, the Southern Song dynasty capital.

Provenance

Men-chu Wang, Beijing, China. Seller's no. 23

?–1957

(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1957–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beurdeley, Michel. The Chinese Collector Through the Centuries, from the Han to the 20th Century. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1966. No. 105, p. 243

Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 50, p. 67

Exhibition history

Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981).

Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).

Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 5-November 5, 2017).

China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).

China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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