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A blue and white bowl with the Ten Symbols of Long Life, Shipjangsaeng Joseon dynasty, 19th century
18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
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A blue and white bowl with the Ten Symbols of Long Life, Shipjangsaeng
Joseon dynasty, 19th century
Thickly potted with a wide curving well and raised on a foot surrounding the deeply recessed base, the floor of the well centered with a su medallion while the outside walls display lively images of tortoises and water waves, bamboo, deer, pine trees, clouds and cranes in flight above bullocho (fungus) growing out of a rock and the sun rising behind a cloud bank, all rendered in underglaze blue washes and outlines, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces except the cinnamon-burnt foot pad
7 1/4in (18.3cm) diameter
Thickly potted with a wide curving well and raised on a foot surrounding the deeply recessed base, the floor of the well centered with a su medallion while the outside walls display lively images of tortoises and water waves, bamboo, deer, pine trees, clouds and cranes in flight above bullocho (fungus) growing out of a rock and the sun rising behind a cloud bank, all rendered in underglaze blue washes and outlines, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces except the cinnamon-burnt foot pad
7 1/4in (18.3cm) diameter
Footnotes
The Ten Symbols of Long Life appear in many forms in Joseon culture. For a magnificent ten-panel screen and a discussion of the motif, see Robert Moes, Auspicious Spirits: Korean Folk Paintings and Related Objects, Washington D.C., 1983, pp. 31-32; and cat. no. 18, illustrated pp. 64-65.
For a jar painted in underglaze blue with the same lively draftsmanship as this bowl, see Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum I: Antique Art, 1 Ceramics, Seoul, 1996, cat. no. 142, p. 151. See also the jar of similar shape and subject matter sold in Christie's, New York, Ten Signs of Long Life: The Robert Moore Collection of Korean Art sale 3485, 18 March 2014, lot 772. Other examples in the form of a bottle and a flower pot are preserved in the collection of the Horim Museum: see Joseon baekja myeongpum-jeon (Masterpieces of Choson White Porcelain), Seoul, 2003, cat. no. 282-2, p. 274 (32.0cm high) and cat. no. 282-3, p. 275 (13.0cm high).
A wide bowl of similar shape and decorative frieze of cranes, clouds, pine and bamboo, also with a longevity character centering the well, sold in Christie's, New York, Korean Works of Art sale 7988, 25 October 1994, lot 44 (7 7/8in/20cm diameter, also as 19th century).