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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Kobayashi Taichiro, Chosen toki zusetsu (Catalogue of Korean ceramics) (Kyoto: Yamamoto Koshu Shasin Kogeibu, 1941), no. 18.
For a ewer of the same shape, lotiform handle and reverse-inlaid design of boys and vines, registered Japanese Important Cultural Property, see Toyo toji no tenkai/Exhibition of Oriental Ceramics, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1982), pl. 71; Itoh Ikutaro and Yutaka Mino et al., The Radiance of Jade and the Clarity of Water: Korean Ceramics from the Ataka Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago and New York: Art Institute of Chicago and Hudson Hills Press, 1991), pl. 16; Choi Sunu, ed., Chanja (Celadon), vol. 4 of Hanguk ui mi (Korea's beauty) (Seoul: Joong-ang Ilbo Sa, 1981), pl. 81; Choi Sunu, Hasebe Gakuji and Zauho Press, Korai/Koryo Dynasty, vol. 18 of Sekai toji zenshu/Ceramic Art of the World (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1978), pl. 71; Toyo toji no tenkai/Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1990), pl. 60; Rhee Byung-chang, Korai toji/Koryo Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), pl. 238.
For another ewer reverse-inlaid with lotus arabesques see Choi Sunu, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, vol. 2 of The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1982), no. 82; Choi Sunu, Hasebe Gakuji and Zauho Press, vol. 18 of Sekai toji zenshu..., pl. 157; for one in the Honolulu Academy of Arts see Rhee, ...Koryo Ceramics, in Masterpieces ..., pl. 239.
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Kobayashi Taichiro, Chosen toki zusetsu (Catalogue of Korean ceramics) (Kyoto: Yamamoto Koshu Shasin Kogeibu, 1941), no. 18.
For a ewer of the same shape, lotiform handle and reverse-inlaid design of boys and vines, registered Japanese Important Cultural Property, see Toyo toji no tenkai/Exhibition of Oriental Ceramics, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1982), pl. 71; Itoh Ikutaro and Yutaka Mino et al., The Radiance of Jade and the Clarity of Water: Korean Ceramics from the Ataka Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago and New York: Art Institute of Chicago and Hudson Hills Press, 1991), pl. 16; Choi Sunu, ed., Chanja (Celadon), vol. 4 of Hanguk ui mi (Korea's beauty) (Seoul: Joong-ang Ilbo Sa, 1981), pl. 81; Choi Sunu, Hasebe Gakuji and Zauho Press, Korai/Koryo Dynasty, vol. 18 of Sekai toji zenshu/Ceramic Art of the World (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1978), pl. 71; Toyo toji no tenkai/Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1990), pl. 60; Rhee Byung-chang, Korai toji/Koryo Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), pl. 238.
For another ewer reverse-inlaid with lotus arabesques see Choi Sunu, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, vol. 2 of The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1982), no. 82; Choi Sunu, Hasebe Gakuji and Zauho Press, vol. 18 of Sekai toji zenshu..., pl. 157; for one in the Honolulu Academy of Arts see Rhee, ...Koryo Ceramics, in Masterpieces ..., pl. 239.
To view a 360 degree rotation of this piece, visit our website at www. christies.com/go/ewer.