A WHITE PORCELAIN EWER

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A WHITE PORCELAIN EWER
CHOSON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)

The water pot of melon form resting on a recessed base and moulded with a curved spout and facetted u-shaped handle and fitted with flat lid with melon-stem knop, decorated in high relief on the opposing sides with large leaf sprays with scrolling tendrils and on the lid with confronted butterflies, the details incised; the vessel covered by a milk-white glaze pooling faintly blue at the base of the handles and in the incised lines of the butterflies--7¼in. (18.5cm.) high; 7in. (17.8cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For other examples of water pots with moulded decoration and glazed white see Goro Akaboshi and Heiichiro Nakamaru, Five Centuries of Korean Ceramics, Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (New York, Tokyo & Kyoto: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1975), no. 90; Catalogue of the Ewha Womans University Museum (Seoul: Ewha Womans University Museum, 1986), no. 1610; Ito Ikutaro, Choson hakuji shosen (Selected pieces of Choson white wares) (Tokyo: Sojusho, 1984), no. 67