A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR

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A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
CHOSON PERIOD (FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY)

Of gourd form, the sides separated into four lobes and resting on a straight foot with recessed base, the short neck only slightly everted, painted on each of the four lobes in underglaze blue above a continuous single line with a stand of bamboo, peach and dragonfly, autumn grasses and a dragonfly and flowering plum, the body of the jar covered by a glossy white glaze- 6 1/8 in. (15.4 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Another gourd-form jar of the same 'autumn grasses' type is illustrated in Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (Osaka, 1987), pl. 87; and a bevelled jar in the collection of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, catalogue (Osaka, 1982), pl. 121

A blue and white vase of the 'autumn grasses' type, of the same date, was sold in these rooms October 24, 1991, lot 901