An Octagonal Blue and White Porcelain Footed Dish

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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An Octagonal Blue and White Porcelain Footed Dish
Choson period (19th century)
With shallow well bordered by eight slightly everted walls and divided into eight slightly rounded facets on the underside surrounding the high octagonal foot, painted in underglaze cobalt-blue in the interior with five large peony blossoms and dense, scrolling foliage within a border of lappets and lines, the underside facets also painted in underglaze-blue with eight panels of alternating pointed and rounded floral quatrefoils within l-shaped or scroll brackets and double-lines, the outlines of the flower reserves repeated on the foot between vertical rows of three circles; the dish also applied with a clear glaze which ends at the foot, foot rim unglazed, deep recessed base glazed
8¼in. (20.8cm.) diameter; 2½in. (6.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Nakamura Keiichi, ed., Showa 16.10.20 (1941.10.20), vol. 4 of Chosen kogei tenrankai zuroku (Catalogue of exhibitions of Korean art and craft), reprinted edition (Tokyo: Toyo Keizai Nipposha, 1984), no. 141.

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