A Hexagonal Box and Cover

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Hexagonal Box and Cover
Choson Period (19th century)
Set on an inset hexagonal base wiith straight walls ending at a flat rim, the cover also hexagonal, slightly domed and with inset lower rim to fit within the lower half of the box; the lower box decorated in underglaze-blue with square panels of triangular latticework and the cover with rows of small squares with x-shaped foliate centers created by the surrounding underglaze-blue; the box also decorated by a blue-tinged clear glaze; rims unglazed
2in. (5.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other boxes see Richo koki sometsuke/Blue and White of the Latter Yi Dynasty, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1989), no. 49; Rhee Byung-chang, Richo toji/Yi Ceramics in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), no. 291; and Richo hen/Korea, Yi dynasty, vol. 14 of Sekai toji zenshu/Collection of World's Ceramics (Tokyo: The Zauho Press and Kawade Shobo, n.d.), no. 108.

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