A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN WATER DROPPER IN THE FORM OF A HOUSE

JOSEON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)

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A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN WATER DROPPER IN THE FORM OF A HOUSE
JOSEON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)
Of square section raised on short bracket feet, modelled with a four-sided pitched roof with tile ridging painted in underglaze cobalt blue and pierced with an aperture at the center top and at one corner, the sides moulded with columnar supports and painted with a pair of doors on the front and a window at each side, and the whole applied with a transparent glaze, the base slightly recessed
3¾in. (9.5cm.) high; 3½in. (8.9cm.) wide

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For another house-form water dropper in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, see Richo no bunbogu The Scholar's Implements of the Yi Dynasty, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1994), pl. 71.

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