A Porcelain Flask
A Porcelain Flask

CHOSON PERIOD (16TH-17TH CENTURY)

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A Porcelain Flask
Choson period (16th-17th century)
Circular, with flattened sides with upright neck ending in an everted mouth and set on an oval-shaped raised foot, decorated with a transparent glaze of high lustre; foot rim unglazed, recessed base glazed
9 1/16in. (23cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other flasks see Selected Items out of Horim Art Museum (Seoul: Sangbo Foundation for Art and Culture, 1984), no. 129; Choi Sunu, ed., Paekja (Porcelain), vol. 2 of Hanguk eui mi (Korea's beauty) (Seoul: Joong-Ang Ilbo sa, 1997), pl. 14; The Radiance of Jade and the Clarity of Water: Korean Ceramics from the Ataka Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pl. 74.

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