A Blue and Copper-decorated Large Porcelain Jar

CHOSON PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and Copper-decorated Large Porcelain Jar
Choson period (early 20th century)
Of high-shouldered ovoid form with tall, upright neck decorated with clouds and auspicious symbols including deer, pulloch'o fungus, bamboo, pines, a tortoise, the sun and a crane between borders of clouds, at the base of the neck, and clouds and waves, above the foot, the jar painted in underglaze cobalt-blue and with accents of underglaze copper-red below a blue-tinged transparent glaze, foot rim unglazed
16¼in. (41cm.) high

Lot Essay

For the nineteenth-century prototype of this vase decorated with the Shipjangsaeng (Ten Signs of Long Life) see Kukrip Joongang parkmulkwan/The National Museum of Korea, exh. cat. (Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1996), p. 212.

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