AN IRON-DECORATED WHITE PORCELAIN BOTTLE

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AN IRON-DECORATED WHITE PORCELAIN BOTTLE
CHOSON DYNASTY (17TH CENTURY)

Of ovoid form with tall, cylindrical neck set on a raised ring foot, decorated in underglaze iron-brown with a branch of flowering May tree on one side and with bamboo and the character 'wine' on the other--11 1/2 in. (29.3 cm.) high, lacquer restoration to lip

Exhibited

Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Richo toji 500 nen no bi [The Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty], 14th October - 23rd November, 1987, no. 110

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Koyama Fujio, et al., Korean Ceramics of the Yi Dynasty in Sekai Toji zenshu, Vol. 14 (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1956), pl. 117; Rhee, Byung-chang, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 1978), no. 349, p. 321