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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BRUSH WASHER, TANGLUOXIKangxi six-character mark and of the period Well potted with low rounded sides incurved at the mouth and supported on a low tapering foot, the exterior covered with a 'peachbloom' glaze of brilliant crimson tone with an attractive mottling of lighter pink and green shades, the interior and recessed base left white, the base inscribed with the six-character reign mark in underglaze blue, box. 11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam. (2).Footnotes清康熙 豇豆紅釉鏜鑼洗 青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 Provenance: An old Hong Kong private collection The Chenyuezhai Collection 來源: 香港私人舊藏 塵月齋收藏 The famous 'peachbloom' glaze was an innovation of the Kangxi period and technically challenging to produce. Potters would coat the vessel with a layer of clear glaze, followed by a layer of copper-oxide-rich pigment, possibly blown onto the underlying glaze using a straw, and then apply a further layer of clear glaze on top. After being fired in a reducing atmosphere and perhaps finished in an oxidizing atmosphere, the pigment developed a soft mottled red tone with flushes of moss green. From the outset, 'peachbloom' wares have been esteemed by connoisseurs and collectors, due to their aesthetic qualities and the fact that this glaze was applied only to a limited range of 'eight prescribed' vessel types all apparently specifically designed for scholarly use. A washer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by D.P. Leidy in How to Read Chinese Ceramics, 2015, p.121, pl.35.1; another related example was sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2018, lot 318. 口沿內收，扁腹外鼓，收於矮短圈足，外壁施豇豆紅釉，足心書青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款。 豇豆紅釉窯中變幻莫測，成品顏色往往獨一無二。紅釉中之銅離子於高溫中又泛綠，俗稱蘋果綠，整體顏色如紅豇豆，故又有豇豆紅之稱。鏜鑼洗為康熙朝首創器型，屬康熙文房「八大碼」之一。可比較紐約大都會博物館藏一件康熙豇豆紅釉鏜鑼洗，見D.P.Leidy著，《How to Read Chinese Ceramics》，2015年，頁121，圖35.1。又可另一例康熙豇豆紅釉鏜鑼洗，發色與本件頗似，2018年3月20日售於紐約蘇富比，拍品編號318。