A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE

Details

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

In the form of a moon flask set on a tapered, oblong foot and moulded at each shoulder with a bushy-tailed Buddhist lion, painted in underglaze-blue on each of the round sides with a river landscape, a scholar and attendant on the riverbank under pine trees on one side, tree-lined shores and distant banks on the other side, the landscape roundels each outlined by a narrow line which is repeated at the foot and the Buddhist lions also painted in pale washes of underglaze-blue, the two smaller ends of the base pierced with circular holes outlined in underglaze-blue--8in. (20.3cm.) high

Exhibited

Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, "Chosen kogei tenrankai (Exhibition of Korean works of art)", October 15--20, 1941

Lot Essay

Published
Chosen kogei kenkyukai, Chosen kogei tenrankai zuroku (Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of Korean works of art) (Tokyo: Bunmei shoten, 1941), no. 97, p. 175

For a very similar bottle see Richo koki sometsuke/Blue and White of the Latter Yi Dynasty, Korea (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1989), no. 34