A BLUE AND WHITE WATER DROPPER

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A BLUE AND WHITE WATER DROPPER
choson period (18th century)

The large water dropper of square shape resting on a shallow, square foot enclosing a very slightly recessed base and moulded at one side with a short, cylindrical spout, painted in underglaze-blue on the top with a scene of two scholars on the shore of a wide bay with hills in the distance and a boat at sail in the middle distance, also painted in underglaze-blue on each of the four sides with branches of flowering plum, all the square panels outlined by a slender blue line, the white glaze even and ending at the foot--3½ x 3½ x 2 5/8in. (9 x 9 x 6.7cm.)

拍品專文

For a similar waterdropper with nearly identical top panel and different flowers on each side see Dukwon Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Chosun Arts (Seoul: Dukwon Museum of Art, 1992), pl. 16, Hongnam Kim, ed., Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century, Splendor & Simplicity (New York: The Asia Society, 1993), pl. 46