拍品专文
This tall jar uses imagery from the Ten Signs of Long Life derived from the Daoist immortality cult that developed in China during the Han dynasty. Their auspicious symbolism was extremely popular in all strata of Korean society during the Joseon dynasty and they appear in most of the decorative arts of this period. Many of these, as here, use a selection of the set of motifs to represent all ten.
The jar has close affinities with another Shipjangsaeng jar of nearly the same size with cobalt blue and copper red decoration; see National Museum of Korea, Seoul, intro., selection and notes by Choi Sunu, vol. 2 of The World's Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1982), no. 302.
The jar has close affinities with another Shipjangsaeng jar of nearly the same size with cobalt blue and copper red decoration; see National Museum of Korea, Seoul, intro., selection and notes by Choi Sunu, vol. 2 of The World's Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1982), no. 302.