AN IRON-BROWN-DECORATED JAR

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AN IRON-BROWN-DECORATED JAR
choson dynasty (18th century)

The large lantern-form jar of compressed globular form with angled walls rising from the high ring foot to the rolled neck with slanted inner rim, painted in underglaze iron-brown with a single dragon encircling the body of the jar amidst large scalloped clouds; the jar covered on the exterior and interior save the foot by a greyish white glaze with even high gloss and dense crackle, kiln grit within recessed base--11½in. (29.2cm.) high, 12½in. (31.8cm.) diameter, chip to foot

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SEE SEPARATE CATALOGUE FOR LOTS 28 - 47
KOREAN ART FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION (SALE 8504)

Lot Essay

For other iron-brown-decorated dragon jars see Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation, 1982), pl. 130; Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1987), pl. 112; Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: privately published, 1978), no. 336; G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period (London: Faber and Faber, 1968), no. 69; Richo tessha ten/White Porcelain of Underglazed Iron-brown, Yi Dynasty, Korea (Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1986), no. 6

Other dragon jars have been sold in these Rooms, October 16, 1986, lot 164; March 26, 1996, lot 18