A Blue and White Porcelain Dish

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and White Porcelain Dish
Choson period (19th century)
The deep, circular dish set on a raised ring foot painted in the interior in underglaze-cobalt with a large cluster of grapes, the grapes rendered in washes of medium and darker blue and the serrated leaf in lighter blue with small accents of dark blue, the curling tendrils also medium and light blue, the dish painted on the interior and exterior below the lip with a narrow line of underglaze-blue which is repeated above the foot, and covered overall save the foot ring with a transparent glaze of even lustre
7 1/8in. (18.2cm.) diameter; 2 1/16in. (5.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Published:
Murayama Takeshi, Richo no sometsuke (Choson-period blue and white), vol. 31 of Toji taisei (Compendium of ceramics [48 vols. complete]) (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1978), pl. 76.

For another dish in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, see Byung-chang Rhee, Richo toji/Yi Ceramics in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), pl. 302.

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