A BLUE-AND-WHITE PORCELAIN SAUCER

細節
A BLUE-AND-WHITE PORCELAIN SAUCER
CHOSON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)

The octagonal saucer with sharply cut rim sloping to a shallow bowl set on a raised and recessed ring foot, decorated in the well with two underglaze-blue bees and incised with centripetal lines on the rim starting from the angles, covered in a blue-tinged glaze -- 1 1/8in. (2.8 cm.) x 4 3/8in. (11.1 cm.)

拍品專文

PUBLISHED
Koyama Fujio et al Korean Ceramics in the Li Dynasty in Sekai Toji Zenshu Vol. 14 (Tokyo: Kawada Shobo, 1956), pl. 110
Akaboshi Goro and Heiichiro Nakamaru Five Centuries of Korean Ceramics - Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (New York, Tokyo & Kyoto: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1975), pl. 104
Rhee, Byung-chang, Yi Ceramics in Masterpieces of Korean Art, Vol. 3 (Tokyo, 1978), pl. 313, p. 287

Probably from the Kumsa-ri kilns, Kwangju, Kyonggi Province

Bees are an auspicious motif; it seems likely that a small cup and saucer with similar design once accompanied this charming saucer and was probably part of a set. The only known other example is a second, almost identical saucer with the motif of paired bees in the Ataka Collection in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka; see Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Richo toji 500 nen no bi: Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (Osaka, 1987), pl. 126