AN IRON-BROWN-DECORATED WHITE PORCELAIN WATER DROPPER

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AN IRON-BROWN-DECORATED WHITE PORCELAIN WATER DROPPER
choson dynasty (late 18th-early 19th century)

Modelled in the form of a bird set on a flat base, the open beak forming the circular spout, decorated with small dabs of iron-brown on the back and on the top of the beak and painted in underglaze blue with eyes, the flat base unglazed--4 3/8in. (11.2cm.) long, 2½in. (6.5cm.) high, chips to spout and tail

Lot Essay

For a similar bird-form water-dropper see Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection (Tokyo: Toguri Museum of Art, 1988), no. 202, p. 154