Lot 59
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A BLUE-GLAZED RECTANGULAR BOTTLE

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A BLUE-GLAZED RECTANGULAR BOTTLE
CHOSON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)

Of rectangular section rising from the flat base to the flat, rectangular shoulder set in the center with a square neck ending in an everted, square mouth, covered overall save the base with a streaked, inky blue glaze--5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a similar rectangular bottle brushed with cobalt blue glaze see Byung-Chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art- Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1978), pl. 315

Other rectangular bottles with slanted shoulders and square, flared necks also covered with a blue glaze were sold in these Rooms October 26, 1992, lot 24 and October 24, 1991, lot 931.