A Copper-red and Blue-Decorated Porcelain Bottle

CHOSON PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A Copper-red and Blue-Decorated Porcelain Bottle
Choson period (late 19th century)
Of globular form with tall cylindrical neck resting on a short ring foot decorated in underglaze blue with accents of underglaze copper-red with four large roundels of tasseled Taoist emblems within double-circle borders, the ground of the bottle underglaze copper-red and a band of underglaze cobalt fretwork painted just below the rim, the whole save the foot rim also applied with a transparent glaze
12¾in. (32.4cm.)

Lot Essay

For another bottle decorated with blue auspicious characters and copper-red ground see Choi Sunu, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, vol. 2 of The World's Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1982), pl. 60.

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