Cleveland Museum of Art

Brush Rest

Date

1127–1279

Medium

glazed stoneware, Guan ware

Culture

Southeast China, Zhejiang province, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

Department

Chinese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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