A blue and white porcelain jar with cranes

Joseon Dynasty (19th century)

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A blue and white porcelain jar with cranes
Joseon Dynasty (19th century)
The ovoid form, decorated in underglaze-blue with two cranes, rocks, bamboo, pine tree and clouds, the neck with auspicious fungus-head-shaped cloud collars, the body applied with a lustrous transparent overglaze
17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.) high
With wood box

Lot Essay

For a similar work in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, see Byung-Chang Rhee, Richo toji/Yi Ceramics in Kankoku bijyutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), pl. 219.

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