A BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE GOURD BOTTLE

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A BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE GOURD BOTTLE
CHOSON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)

Modelled with a hexagonal lower section resting on the wide ring foot, tapered at the waist and rising to an ovoid upper section ending in a cylindrical neck and rolled lip, painted on each of the bevelled sides in underglaze blue with alternating panels of verses of a poem alternating with stands of autumn flowers and painted on the bulbous edges of the upper section with four of the eight Taoist emblems--10 3/4 in. (27.1 cm.) high, diagonal crack from base, foot chips

Lot Essay

For a double gourd bottle inscribed with the same poem see Richo toji Moji o Tomanat'ta [Korean Ceramics of Choson Dynasty with Characters], (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1993), pl. 28; for other bevelled double-gourd bottles see Richo akigusa ten [Exhibition of wares decorated with autumn flowers of the Choson Dynasty], (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1988), nos. 25, 26