A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle

CHOSON PERIOD (SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle
Choson Period (second half 18th century)
With evenly proportioned ovoid body rising from a raised ring foot and with cylindrical neck ending in a rolled lip, painted in underglaze cobalt-blue with four landscape medallions within double-line borders reminiscent of four of the classic Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang: in one, two scholars on a rocky shoreline observe a passing boat, distant hills and the hazy sun; in another, a flock of geese flies over mountains and inlets; in another, a fishing boat nears shore; and in another, a cargo boat passes below a pavilion on a promontory, a banner flies from a tall staff on the terrace, five fishing boats are at anchor, and the sun and hills are in the distance; the bottle also decorated with a glossy, crackled transparent glaze, foot rim unglazed, incised Chinese character on base nae (inner)
13 9/16in. (34.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another bottle see Hayashiya Seizo, ed., Ataka korekushon (Ataka Collection), Korea volume of Toyo toji meihin zuroku (Catalogue of masterpieces of East Asian ceramics) (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 1980), no. 473.

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