AN IRON-DECORATED WHITE PORCELAIN JAR

細節

AN IRON-DECORATED WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
choson period (17th century)

Of compressed globular form resting on a flared ring foot and ending in a wide, upright rim, painted in underglaze iron-brown with orchids, the stems drawn in lively arcs and corkscrew-curls of deep brown, the flowers a combination of brown matching the stems and brown burnt to a pleasing rust color in the firing, the body covered by a transparent glaze with a faint blue tinge which is thick in two places at the waist and crackled above the foot--8 1/8in. (20.7cm.) high

來源

Yoon Hee Chung, Kongju City, South Chungchong Province

拍品專文

For another jar painted with orchids see G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period (London: Faber and Faber, 1968), no. 62a and Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: privately published, 1978), pl. 332