A BLUE AND WHITE VASE

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A BLUE AND WHITE VASE
choson period (18th century)

Of ovoid form with tall, cylindrical neck ending in a rolled lip resting on a recessed ring foot, moulded on each shoulder with a handle in the form of a bushy tailed animal, one replaced, and decorated on opposite sides in pale and darker strokes of underglaze-blue with a vase of persimmons and with a vase of peonies, each bordered by grasses rendering in slender, arched lines in pale underglaze-blue, the body also covered by a white glaze with blue caste--7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) high