id: 134843 accession number: 1957.40 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.40 updated: 2023-01-11 00:31:37.543000 Brush Washer, late 1000s–1127. China, Henan Province, Baofeng, Qingliangsi, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Porcelaneous stoneware, Ru ware; diameter: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.); overall: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1957.40 title: Brush Washer title in original language: 汝瓷筆洗盤 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1000s–1127 creation date earliest: 1075 creation date latest: 1127 current location: 238 Chinese Ceramics creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Henan Province, Baofeng, Qingliangsi, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) technique: porcelaneous stoneware, Ru ware department: Chinese Art collection: China - Song Dynasty type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.); Overall: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The World of Ceramics - Masterpieces from The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 30-September 5, 1982). --- PROVENANCE Men-chu Wang, Beijing, China. Seller's No. 18 date: footnotes: citations: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1957 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1957– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The little black spot in the glaze inside the dish is one of the slight imperfections characteristic of genuine Ru ware. digital description: wall description: Ru ware is the rarest and most celebrated of all Chinese imperial wares. It was made for the late Northern Song court for a very short time and was therefore extremely rare and precious. Simplicity and refined elegance are Ru ware's hallmarks. Its graceful shape, soft luster, and subtle color variation of the glaze interact in perfect unity. Other physical characteristics include an ash-grey body, soft greyblue glaze with a fine crackle, as well as small sesame-seed spur marks on the base. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 843 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n148 Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 36, p. 340 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 256 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n280 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 256 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n280 Valenstein, Suzanne G. A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. page number: Reproduced: p. 75, fig. 30 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 338 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n358 Tichane, Robert. Those Celadon Blues. Painted Post, NY: New York State Institute for Glaze Research, 1978. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 3.14, p. 27. url: Kleinhenz, Henry J. "Porcelains for Imperial Use: The Sung Dynasty." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 4 (1978): 135–150h. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 140, fig. 6, a url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159578 Ball, Victoria Kloss. Architecture and Interior Design. New York: Wiley, 1980. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5.62, p. 204 url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 369; Reproduced: p. 340, color pl. 36 url: Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 106, p. 102 url: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院 . Hai wai yi zhen: taoci [海外遺珎. 陶瓷 = Chinese art in overseas collections, pottery & porcelain]. Zhonghua min guo Taibei Shi Shilin qu 中華民國台北市士林區: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1986. page number: Reproduced: pl. 102, p. 102 url: Mowry, Robert D. "Koryo Celadons." Orientations vol. 17, no. 5 (May 1986), pp. 24–39. page number: Reproduced: fig. 11, p. 32 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 54–55 url: Chung, Anita. "A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee." Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 6 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 90–91 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 98–99 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 33 url: Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 123, fig. 70 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.40/1957.40_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.40/1957.40_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.40/1957.40_full.tif