A LARGE WHITE GLAZED PORCELAIN STORAGE JAR

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A LARGE WHITE GLAZED PORCELAIN STORAGE JAR
YI DYNASTY (17TH CENTURY)

The well potted oviform body tapering to a raised ring foot and with sharply everted rim, decorated in a pure white, finely crackled, glaze with occasional peach-colored firing blushes, with firing cracks to the footring and base - 14 1/2 x 14in. (37 x 35.6cm.)

Lot Essay

A larger jar of the same type was sold in these rooms October 14, 1987, lot 177. Others are illustrated in Choi, "National Museum of Korea" Oriental ceramics-the world's great collections Vol. 2 (Tokyo 1976), pl.74; Byung-Chang Rhee, "Yi ceramics", Masterpieces of Korean art Vol. III, (Tokyo 1978), pl. 144, p.135; Kohara, Ataka collection-Richo meihin ten (Osaka 1979), pl.113; Sunu Choi et al., Special exhibition from the Lee Hong-kun collection-National Museum of Korea 1981 (Seoul 1981), pl. 323; Nonogami/Itoh, Richo hakuji shosen (Tokyo 1984), pl. 2 (in color), pls. 24, 25