A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle
Choson period (19th century)
Of pear form with tall cylindrical neck, rolled lip and short ring foot, decorated in underglaze-blue with four large nine-petal floral medallions and a single line encircling the foot, and with a clear glaze of blue cast; foot rim unglazed, shallow recessed base glazed
13 3/8in. (34cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a bowl and cover with similar decoration, see Itoh Ikutaro, ed., Yuen no iro shitsuboku no katachi Rhee Byung-Chang korekushon/Color of Elegance, Form of Simplicity: The Beauty of Korean Ceramics from the Rhee Byung-Chang Collection (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1999), pl. 149.

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