Brush Rest
Southeast China, Zhejiang province, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279) · 1127–1279 · Cleveland Museum of Art
What did you think?
Save this work’s image and museum information on this device to read without a connection.
Guide
Adjust the guideNew to it · Medium
Nobody has listened to this guide yet. Making it takes about twenty seconds, and after that anyone can hear it straight away.
From the museum
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. There are twelve "hills" on this mountain-shaped brush rest.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
Ask about this work
Ask in your own words. The answer comes from what the museum has written about the work, and says so when that does not hold it.
Details
- Maker
- Southeast China, Zhejiang province, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)
- Date
- 1127–1279
- Medium
- glazed stoneware, Guan ware
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2.8 x 7.6 cm (1 1/8 x 3 in.); Overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
- Place of origin
- Southeast China
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
Shown in
- China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi DeltaSep 10, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024
- China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and DetailDec 11, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023
- Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted ScreensAug 5, 2017 – Nov 5, 2017
- Scholar's StudioSep 19, 1989 – Dec 17, 1989
- Chinese Paintings: Themes and TechniquesFeb 7, 1981 – Apr 5, 1981