Lot 38
38
A DEEP BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

Details
A DEEP BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
choson dynasty (first quarter 19th century)

Flaring slightly from a deeply-inset and high ring foot to a wide, circular rim and painted in clear outlines and contrasted washes of underglaze blue with a variety of auspicious symbols and scholars' objects, including a wish-granting ruyi scepter, bat (happiness), bowl of peaches (longevity), vase of peonies (prosperity), a pair of horns (one of the 'eight precious things'), the sword of Lü Dongpin, one of the Eight Taoist Immortals, a censer with a dragon finial, various archaic-form vessels, vases, scrolls, brushes and rock; the interior of the bowl also painted in underglaze blue with alternating peony sprays and birds centering a bat and branch of peaches, spurious Chenghua reign marks on base--6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) diameter, 4 1/8in. (10.7cm.) high, vertical hairline crack extending from rim, foot chip, small pink stains in glaze on foot and several areas of body

Lot Essay

A dish similarly decorated with scholars' implements and flowers was sold in these Rooms, Fine and Important Korean Ceramics and Works of Art, October 14, 1987, lot 231.

For a similar hexagonal dish see also Richo no sara/Porcelain Dishes in Choson Dynasty, Korea (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1991), pl. 35