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JOSEON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)
Details
A Blue and White, Copper-Red and Iron-Decorated Peach-form Water Dropper
Joseon dynasty (19th century)
Modelled in the form of a large Peach of Immortality with thick stem forming the hexagonal foot and rising along one side to the cylindrical spout, two side leaves incised with short lines to simulate veins and applied with cobalt underglaze; the sides painted between the leaves in underglaze blue with a floral medallion, floral spray and two smaller florets and additional segments of the stem incised and applied with underglaze copper-red, the pointed double-tip applied with faint iron underglaze and the whole covered by a glossy blue-tinged clear glaze
4in. (10.2cm.) high
Joseon dynasty (19th century)
Modelled in the form of a large Peach of Immortality with thick stem forming the hexagonal foot and rising along one side to the cylindrical spout, two side leaves incised with short lines to simulate veins and applied with cobalt underglaze; the sides painted between the leaves in underglaze blue with a floral medallion, floral spray and two smaller florets and additional segments of the stem incised and applied with underglaze copper-red, the pointed double-tip applied with faint iron underglaze and the whole covered by a glossy blue-tinged clear glaze
4in. (10.2cm.) high
Provenance
Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo
Literature
Toguri Museum of Art, Toguri Bijutsukan sakuhin zuroku Oriental Ceramics in the Toguri Collection (Tokyo: Toguri Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 201.
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