An Iron-Decorated Small Jar

CHOSON PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

Details

An Iron-Decorated Small Jar
Choson Period (17th Century)
Of high-shouldered ovoid form with short, everted neck ending in a wide, circular mouth, decorated under the translucent glaze in iron pigment with a flower on one side and with bamboo on the opposite, the central blossom and right leaf of the flower reddish-brown and the stem, three leaves and the bamboo dark brown, the body of the jar also incised with a partial-double and a single slender line around the mid-section, glaze mostly wiped away on flat foot rim and shallow recessed base glazed and with sand adhesions
2¾in. (7.1cm.) high

Exhibited

Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, "Richo tessha ten/White Porcelain of Underglazed Iron-brown, Yi Dynasty, Korea," 1986.1.5--3.30

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED
Richo tessha ten/White Porcelain of Underglazed Iron-brown, Yi Dynasty, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1986), no. 52.

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