Two Porcelain Epitaph Tablets
Choson Period (18th Century)
Each flat and rectangular inscribed in cobalt blue under transparent glaze with ten vertical lines of commemorative text relating to the deceased Rim Bong Rae of Okya with cylical death date probably corresponding to 1710 or 1770, also inscribed on the spine of each tablet that these are tablet numbers 2 and 3 of 22, the undersides unglazed
8 x 6in. (22.3 x 17.2cm.) (2)
拍品專文
For other epitaph tablets see Hongnam Kim, ed., Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century: Splendor and Simplicity, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society Galleries, 1994), pls. 110, 111.