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Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Gong-shaped Brush Washer

1662–1722

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1662-1722)
porcelain
Diameter of mouth: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Overall: 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.166
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1944
    Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865–1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1944–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned: p. 81 archive.org
    Hollis, Howard. "Chinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (June 1944): 103-108. Mentioned: p. 105 www.jstor.org
  • {{cite web|title=Gong-shaped Brush Washer|url=false|author=|year=1662–1722|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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