Lot Essay
For a jar in the Kyoto National Museum see Itoh Ikutaro, Richo hakuji shosen (Selected Choson-period white wares) (Tokyo: Sojusha Bijutsu Shuppan, 1984), no. 26.
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CHOSON PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
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A Large White Porcelain Jar
Choson Period (17th-18th Century)
Of globular form with distinctive bulging mid-section, thick, upright neck and flat mouth rim, decorated with a crystalline clear glaze of pronounced blue cast, thickly applied on one side and running in slender rivulets to the foot, pink where thinly applied in an adjacent area above the foot, and with variegated crackle overall, sand adhesions to unglazed foot rim and to glazed, recessed base
9.7/8in. (25cm.) high
Choson Period (17th-18th Century)
Of globular form with distinctive bulging mid-section, thick, upright neck and flat mouth rim, decorated with a crystalline clear glaze of pronounced blue cast, thickly applied on one side and running in slender rivulets to the foot, pink where thinly applied in an adjacent area above the foot, and with variegated crackle overall, sand adhesions to unglazed foot rim and to glazed, recessed base
9.7/8in. (25cm.) high