A RARE LARGE WHITE PORCELAIN JAR

CHOSON PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

Details

A RARE LARGE WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
choson period (17th century)
Of ovoid form with pronounced shoulders curving upward to the neck, which is thick and angled outward in counterpoint to the long inward-curve of the profile, covered by a clear glaze, quite brilliant on one side and with random, small pink blushes from the firing, the foot and recessed base unglazed
21½in. (54.7cm.) high, 17 1/8in. (43.4cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For other jars see Itoh Ikutaro, Richo hakuji shosen (Selected Choson period white wares) (Tokyo: Sojusha bijutsu shuppan, 1984), no. 27 and fig. p.139, fig. p. 128; Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Yi Ceramics (Tokyo: privately published, 1978), no. 158; 2000 Years of Korean Arts (Seoul: The National Museum of Korea, 1973), no. 341; Choi Sunu, ed., Paekja (White wares), Hanguk ui mi (Korean beauty) (Seoul: Joong-ang Ilbosa, 1978), pl. 12; Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation, 1982), pl. 84.