A Blue and White Porcelain Water Dropper

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and White Porcelain Water Dropper
Choson Period (19th Century)
Tall and square, resting on a square foot enclosing a recessed base, and moulded on one side with a gold-lacquer cylindrical spout; decorated on the flat top and four sides with matching landscape panels of two birds flying over two sailing boats, craggy cliffs and mountains, executed in underglaze cobalt-blue within a line border, and covered by a glossy transparent glaze with blue hue, foot rim unglazed
2½ x 2½ x 2.7/8in. (6.3 x 6.3 x 7.3cm.)

Lot Essay

For a square waterdropper with the same landscape top panel see Moonbangku (1) Byru wa yean juck/[Scholars' articles (1)] Special Exhibition of Inkstone and Water Dropper, exh. cat. (Seoul: Ewha Woman's University Museum, 1974), no. 4.

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