A COPPER-RED-DECORATED WHITE-GLAZED JAR

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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED WHITE-GLAZED JAR
choson dynasty (18th century)

Of ovoid form with evenly rounded shoulders, with tapered sides which end at a slanted-edge foot and enclose a deeply-recessed base, and with an upright, cylindrical neck with flat rim; painted in underglaze copper-red around the base of the neck and the shoulders with two clusters of grapes and two large and serrated grape leaves suspended from twisted stems with scrolling tendrils, the definition of the fruits, leaves and vines rendered by contrasted applications of copper oxide pigment, the body of the jar covered by a thick white glaze of greyish-blue cast with even crystalline lustre, the foot unglazed--9½in. (24.5cm.) high, 7¾in. (19.7cm.) body diameter, five cracks through neck into shoulders, two rim chips, star crack on shoulder, random glaze pulls

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: privately published, 1978), no. 371

A large white jar decorated in copper-red with lotus was sold in these Rooms October 26, 1992, lot 17.

For another jar decorated in copper-red with three grape leaves and tendrils (22.5cm. high) see The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Memorial Exhibition (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1952)