Sale 8768
New York, Park Avenue
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25 November 1997
Price realised
USD 27,600
Estimate
A WHITE PORCELAIN INKSTONE choson period (16th century) The thick inkstone of rectangular shape carved with a deep demilune basin next to a shallow, rounded-rectangular well, covered by a thin and very glossy transparent glaze which is tinged blue especially in the basin and at the edges of the shallow well, the flat base covered by a thin application of the clear glaze 4¾ x 2 1/8 x 7/8in. (12.2 x 5.3 x 2.1cm.)
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For a similar rectangular, white porcelain inkstone dated 17th-18th century see Richo no bumbogu ten/The Scholar's Implements of the Yi Dynasty, Korea (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1994), pl. 33.
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