A White Porcelain Artist's Palette

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A White Porcelain Artist's Palette
Choson period (19th century)
Shallow and square with rounded corners and moulded with five shallow rectangular sections and applied with a blue-tinged clear glaze which pools to more intense blue at the edges of the recessed sections, the flat base unglazed
5 5/16 x 5 5/16in. (13.4 x 13.4cm.)

Lot Essay

For other palettes see Choson paekja jeun (Exhibition of white porcelain of the Choson period), I, exh. cat. (Seoul: Ho-Am Museum of Art, 1983), no. 60; Itoh Ikutaro, ed., Yuen no iro shitsuboku no katachi Rhee Byung-Chang korekushon/Color of Elegance, Form of Simplicity: The Beauty of Korean Ceramics from the Rhee Byung-Chang Collection (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1999), pl. 104; Richo no bunbogu/The Scholar's Implements of the Yi Dynasty, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1994), pl. 38.

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