Chinese Copper-Red Foliate Brushwasher. Finely potted of ten-lobed mallow form with gently flaring sides resting on a countersunk base of corresponding form, applied evenly overall with a deep sacrifical-red glaze, pooling to a dark crimson tone on the interior and thinning to white towards the rim and the foot, the white base inscribed in underglaze blue with a dated calligraphy in regular script. {Width: 7 1/2 inches}.