Lot 58
58
A COPPER-RED-DECORATED BEVELLED JAR

Details
A COPPER-RED-DECORATED BEVELLED JAR
choson dynasty (18th century)

Moulded with eleven facets above a high ring foot, slanted shoulder and wide, rolled lip, painted in copper-red with four large foliate medallions below scrolling stems and blossoms on the shoulders, covered by a greyish-white glaze with thick streaks of blue cast and incised above the foot with three parallel lines, kiln grit in recessed base--6½in. (16.8cm.) high, large rim chip and hairline cracks, diagonal base crack

Lot Essay

Similarly decorated bevelled jars were sold in these Rooms, March 29, 1990, lot 329, April 27, 1993, lot 19 and October 25, 1994, lot 25.

For other jars see Richo shinsha ten/Porcelain with Underglaze Copper-Red of Yi Dynasty, Korea (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1985)