Chinese Brown Glazed Brush Washer. The rounded body of the washer is painted to the exterior with four circular panels of flowers, reserved on light orange-brown glaze, with gilded lotus scroll highlights, the interior and recessed base covered with a transparent glaze, accompanied by a wooden stand. {Diameter: 5 3/4 inches (14.6 cm)}. Provenance:Collection of Mary Margaret and Col. Wilbur Haven, who were assigned as US liaison to the Chinese government in Nanjing, their collection mostly acquired in the mid 1940s, and thence by descent within the family.