AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR WITH CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLLS
AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR WITH CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLLS
AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR WITH CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLLS
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AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR WITH CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLLS

KOREA, JOSEON DYNASTY (FIRST HALF OF 15TH CENTURY)

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AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR WITH CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLLS
KOREA, JOSEON DYNASTY (FIRST HALF OF 15TH CENTURY)
Of well-proportioned ovoid form with high shoulder, short neck and everted lip, balanced on a tapering body elegantly painted in underglaze cobalt blue with scrolls of chrysanthemum, shoulder and foot decorated with bands of stylized lotus petals, applied with a lustrous transparent overglaze
11 in. (27.9 cm.) high, 10 1⁄3 in. (26.2cm.) diam.
Provenance
Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo
Literature
Asakawa Noritaka, Richo hakuji, sometsuke, Tessha (Joseon Dynasty white, blue and white, iron decorated ceramics), vol. 17 of Toki zenshu (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1960), pl. 10.
Zauho kankokai, ed., Richo hen (Joseon Dynasty), vol. 14 of Sekai toji zenshu (Tokyo: kawadeshobo shinsha, 1961), pl. 94.
Nezu Museum, ed., Chosen no meito-Senshi kara Richo made (Masterpiece ceramics of Joseon Dynasty-from prehistory to Joseon Dynasty) (Tokyo: Nezu Museum, 1966), pl. 87.
Mayuyama & Co., ed., Vol 1 of Ryusen shuho/Mayuyama, Seventy Years (Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, 1976), pl. 1237.
Komoto Hukuji, Chosen II (Korea II), vol. 9 of Toki koza (Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1976), pl. 46.
Mayuyama Takeshi, Richo no sometsuke (Blue and white porcelain of Masterpiece ceramics of Joseon Dynasty-from prehistory to Joseon Dynasty), vol 31 of Toji taikei (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1978), pl. 4.
Byung-Chang Rhee, Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Tokyo daigaku shuppankai, 1978), pl. 188.
Zauho kankokai, ed., Richo (Yi Dynasty), vol. 19 of Sekai toji zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World) (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1980), pl. 35.
Hoam Museum of Art, ed., Joseon White Porcelain II (Seoul: Samsung Foundation of Culture, 1985), exh. cat. ref. pl. 11.
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, ed., Richo toji gohyakunen no bi (Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty) (Osaka: The Museum of Oriental Ceramic, Osaka, 1987), pl. S-4.
Kikutake Jun'ichi and Yoshida Hiroshi, eds., Chosen ocho (Joseon Dynasty), vol. 11 of Sekai bijitsu Dai zenshu, Toyo hen (New History of World Art, Oriental edition) (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1999), pl. 149.
Ito Ikutaro, "Chosen toji shiko: Toji hen" (Historical research on Joseon ceramics: Porcelain),vol. 1299 of Kokka (Tokyo: Kokka sha and Asahi shinbunsha, 2004), pp. 25.
Ito Ikutaro, Korai seiji・Richo hakuji eno omaju (Hommage to celadon of Goryeo Dynasty, white porcelain of Joseon Dynasty) (Kyoto: Tankosha, 2017), p.217, pl. 16.
Exhibited
"Richo toji gohyakunen no bi (Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty)", The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 14 October-23 November 1987

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