A BLUE AND WHITE JAR

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A BLUE AND WHITE JAR
CHOSON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)

Of ovoid form with high shoulders and upright, cylindrical rim, painted in deep underglaze blue with a stand of bamboo and with a stand of flowering plum and inscribed in large characters 'plum' and 'bamboo' in the open space between the two trees, and additional single line in underglaze blue surrounding the foot, the body of the jar covered with a milky white glaze--14 5/8in. (37.3cm.) high, neck restored, body crack

Lot Essay

For another jar painted with plum and bamboo and character inscription see Catalogue 22, Special Exhibition of Blue-and-White Porcelain in Choson Period from the Punwonri Government Kiln: the Last Government of Choson (Seoul: Ewha Womans University Museum, May 1994), no. 6