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CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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A Blue and White Porcelain Flower Pot
Choson Period (19th century)
Cylindrical, on an inset circular foot, flaring slightly at the extended rim which ends in a rolled lip, and moulded at the midsection with a raised double-ridge, the pot painted in fluid lines and washes of underglaze-cobalt with an immortal holding a fungus on a gnarled pine, distant tree-studded hills under another branch of pine and a six-character poem in Chinese characters, also painted around the foot with a single line and around the inside of the lip with double lines of underglaze-blue and applied overall but the foot rim with a glossy transparent glaze of blue cast; flat base cut with circular hole for drainage
6 5/8in. (17cm.) high; 8 1/16in. (20.2cm.) diameter
Choson Period (19th century)
Cylindrical, on an inset circular foot, flaring slightly at the extended rim which ends in a rolled lip, and moulded at the midsection with a raised double-ridge, the pot painted in fluid lines and washes of underglaze-cobalt with an immortal holding a fungus on a gnarled pine, distant tree-studded hills under another branch of pine and a six-character poem in Chinese characters, also painted around the foot with a single line and around the inside of the lip with double lines of underglaze-blue and applied overall but the foot rim with a glossy transparent glaze of blue cast; flat base cut with circular hole for drainage
6 5/8in. (17cm.) high; 8 1/16in. (20.2cm.) diameter