A Porcelain Faceted Ritual Bowl

CHOSON PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A Porcelain Faceted Ritual Bowl
Choson Period (18th Century)
With ten facets rising from a decagonal foot and flaring outward to the wide, pointed and scalloped rim, inscribed within the circular well in underglaze cobalt-blue with the character jea (offering) inside a slender circle, also decorated with a clear glaze of even sheen and blue hue, which is more pronounced in several narrow veils and patches where the glaze is thicker, circular recessed base glazed, foot rim unglazed and with sand adhesions
4.5/8in. (11.8cm.) high to scalloped edge, 4.7/8in. (12.6cm.) high to point; diameter 9¼in. (23.6cm.) and 9.3/8in. (23.9cm.)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED
Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), no. 160.

For two other vessels see Itoh Ikutaro, ed., Yuen no iro shitsuboku no katachi Rhee Byung-chang korekushion kankoku toji no bi/Color of Elegance, Form of Simplicity: The Beauty of Korean Ceramics from the Rhee Byung-chang Collection, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1999), pl. 160; Richo no saiki/Ritual Vessels of Yi Dynasty, Korea (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1988), no. 24; Richo saiki ten (Exhibition of Choson-period ritual vessels) (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1988), no. 24 (same vessel as preceding); Itoh Ikutaro, Richo hakuji shosen (Selected Choson-period white wares), no. 43 (same vessel as preceding).

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