A WHITE PORCELAIN TOAD-FORM WATER DROPPER

JOSEON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)

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A WHITE PORCELAIN TOAD-FORM WATER DROPPER
JOSEON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)
Modeled as a seated squatting toad with forelegs pressed together, the surface moulded with raised florets repeatedly suggestive of the knobby skin of a toad, the snout and eyes decorated by light lines of underglaze blue, the vessel applied with a glossy clear glaze
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

For another toad-form water droppers, see Byung-Chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art - Yi Dynasty Ceramics (Tokyo, 1978), pl. 445, p. 390; Seo Hyowon, Bunwon Porcelains / Late Joseon Blue and White (Gyeonggi, Gyeonggi Ceramics Museum, 2009), no. 60

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