A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle
Choson Period (19th Century)
Of well-proportioned globular form on a raised circular foot with tall, cylindrical neck ending in a rolled lip, decorated in light, medium and dark concentrations of underglaze cobalt-blue with a frieze of the Shipjangsaeng (The Ten Signs of Long Life) above a single blue line, an additional pair of double lines drawn around the foot, and covered by a glossy transparent glaze tinged blue, foot rim unglazed
12in. (30.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

In addition to a four-clawed dragon in foaming waves, a flaming pearl and a background of treed hills are the ten symbols: the sun, clouds, deer, crane, tortoise, water, rock, pine, bamboo and pulloch'o, the sacred fungus.

For another vessel designed with the Shipjangsaeng see Choi Sunu, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, vol. 2 of Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1982), pl. 53.

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