Qing Dynasty, or earlier The vessel of compressed globular shape with a short and waisted neck, covered overly in a greyish-cream glaze suffused with a 'gold wire and iron thread' crackle, supported on three short nipple feet exposing a reddish clay body. 5.8cm (2 1/4in) diam.
清或以前 哥釉三足小水丞
Provenance: Alice Boney, New York, 1956 (as Song dynasty) Dr. B. Fujimura, Berkeley, California, 21 December 1956 Bonhams New York, 21 March 2022, lot 190
來源： Alice Boney，紐約，1956年（斷代為宋） B. Fujimura博士，伯克利，加利福尼亞，1956 年 12 月 21 日 紐約邦瀚斯，2022年3月21日，拍品編號190
Compare with the small celadon-glazed censer of closely related form in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p.224, no.202, described as imitating Guan glaze from the Ming dynasty.
For a small ge-type brush washer of the Yuan or early Ming dynasty displaying similar darker 'iron-wire' crackle with 'golden' threads, see Sotheby's London, 4 November 2020, lot 183.
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