A BLUE AND WHITE FLUTED DISH

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

Balanced on a ring foot and moulded on the interior and exterior with radiating flower petals, the edges of the petals indicated by ridges on the interior and by thin, incised lines on the underside, painted in the cavetto with an auspicious character (wealth) within a narrow ring in underglaze-blue and covered by a white glaze with blue caste--8in. (20.2cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For other fluted dishes inscribed with a character see Moji-o tomonata richo toji/Korean Ceramics of Choson Dynasty with Characters (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1993), pl. 60; Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: privately published, 1978), pl. 277