Lot 48
48
A BLUE AND WHITE DISH

Details
A BLUE AND WHITE DISH
choson period (19th century)

Of square shape with canted corners balanced on a raised ring foot, the sides curved on the lower outsides above the foot and upright below the rim, painted in the shallow well in dark underglaze-blue with a single auspicious character (double happiness) and covered overall save the foot with a blue-tinged white glaze--4 3/8 x 4¼ x 1 3/8in. (11 x 10.7 x 3.8cm.)
Exhibited
Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, "Chosen kogei tenrankai (Exhibition of Korean works of art)", November 24--30, 1939

Lot Essay

Published:
Tanabe Takao, ed., Chosen kogei tenrankai zuroku (Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of Korean works of art) (Osaka: Chosen kogei kenkyukai, 1939), no. 1796, p. 45

For another dish see Choi Sunu, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, The World's Ceramics, Oriental Ceramics (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1982), no. 270