A White Porcelain Bottle

CHOSON PERIOD (SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY)

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A White Porcelain Bottle
Choson Period (Second Half 18th Century)
Of evenly proportioned pear form with cylindrical neck ending in a slightly everted lip, moulded with overlapping lotus petals decreasing in size toward the top where they end in sharp upright points below the lip, each petal also incised with slender vertical lines; the body covered overall save the foot ring with a lustrous transparent glaze of blue hue, particularly blue in the channels separating the petals and in the incised lines, patch of kiln grit on recessed base
9in. (22.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another bottle see Itoh Ikutaro, ed., Yuen no iro shitsuboku no katachi Rhee Byung-chang korekushion kankoku toji no bi/Color of Elegance, Form of Simplicity: The Beauty of Korean Ceramics from the Rhee Byung-chang Collection, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1999), pl. 92.

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