A Blue and White Porcelain Dish
A Blue and White Porcelain Dish

JOSEON DYNASTY (LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and White Porcelain Dish
Joseon dynasty (late 19th-early 20th century)
The shallow circular dish balanced on a high ring foot decorated on the interior with scrolling grape vines in medium and dark underglaze cobalt blue within a double-line border, the foot encircled by a single blue line and the whole save the foot rim applied with a glossy transparent glaze with blue cast
9 5/8in. (24.3cm.) diameter; 2¼in. (5.8cm.) high
Literature
Omata Fukuichiro, Richo hakuji sometsuke sara (Blue and white porcelain dishes of the Joseon dynasty) (n.p.: privately published edition of 1000 vols.), 1990, pl. 44.

Lot Essay

For other dishes decorated with grape vines, see Richo no sara Porcelain Dishes in Choson Dynasty, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1991), pls. 14-16.

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