In homage to the creativity and spohistication evidenced in the Xuande blue and white works, later Chinese potters often tried to recapture their look and quality. Nonetheless, from this piece's astonishing underglaze blue, we can eaisly see that is an impossible task. This brush wahser was probably made during the middle period of Xuande era, brown and iron spots are over the body, no glaze was applied on the base, the six-character mark, which means "Made during the Xuande era of the great Ming Dynasty", is written in two lines in regular script.
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