Lot 24
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AN IRON-DECORATED MINIATURE BOTTLE

Details
AN IRON-DECORATED MINIATURE BOTTLE
choson dynasty (16th century)

Of ovoid form resting on a flat, round base and with wide neck ending in a flared mouth with rolled lip, painted in underglaze iron-brown with flowering grasses in three clusters rising from the base and covered with a lustrous transparent glaze ending above the unglazed base--2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED
Richo tessha ten/White Porcelain of Underglazed Iron-brown, Yi Dynasty, Korea (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1986), no. 50