Live Auction 1695Korean Art Including The Robert Moore Collection of Korean
An Animal-form Marble Water Dropper
Lot 502

An Animal-form Marble Water Dropper

(EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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USD 4,800

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An Animal-form Marble Water Dropper
(early 20th century)
Carved as an archaistic frog and painted in red and blue pigment with Chinese characters, the incised details of the frog also painted in blue or red; the interior hollow reached through a large oval aperture, small circular spout through mouth
3¼in. (8.3cm.) long; 1 3/8in. (3.5cm.) high

Specialist note

PUBLISHED:
Robert Sayers, Sun & Moon: Traditional Arts of Yi Dynasty Korea (San Francisco: San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1988), fig. 12.