A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR

CHOSON PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)

Details

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
choson period (18th-19th century)
Of high-shouldered ovoid form with upright cylindrical neck balanced on a ring foot enclosing a recessed base, painted in underglaze-blue around the perimeter of the shoulders with two pairs of birds, each facing the other, perched on flowering branches, the neck encircled by a collar of yo'i-shaped clouds below double lines at the base of the neck, and below a single line below the lip, another band of clouds painted in underglaze-blue around the lower body and a narrow single line of blue painted above the foot, covered by a clear glaze with blue cast and even lustre, foot unglazed, recessed base also glazed with orange scorching in the center
16 1/8in. (40.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another jar see Choi Sunu, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, The World's Ceramics, Oriental Ceramics, vol. 2 (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1982), no. 235.

A jar of similar shape and decoration was sold Christie's, New York, 24 April, 1997, lot 46.