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A blue and white jar with chrysanthemum, orchid and bamboo decoration Joseon dynasty, late 18th century
18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
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A blue and white jar with chrysanthemum, orchid and bamboo decoration
Joseon dynasty, late 18th century
Thickly potted with a slightly flared neck and body of inverted pear form also flaring slightly toward the foot with its deeply recessed base, the rounded shoulder encircled by a band of overlapping cloud scrolls or bullocho fungus above chrysanthemum branches and spiky orchid plants in bloom around a stylized garden rock on one side and a hearty bamboo stalk with delicately delineated leafy twigs on the other, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces except the pad of the foot, which has some kiln sand adhering
11 1/8in (28.3cm) high
Thickly potted with a slightly flared neck and body of inverted pear form also flaring slightly toward the foot with its deeply recessed base, the rounded shoulder encircled by a band of overlapping cloud scrolls or bullocho fungus above chrysanthemum branches and spiky orchid plants in bloom around a stylized garden rock on one side and a hearty bamboo stalk with delicately delineated leafy twigs on the other, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces except the pad of the foot, which has some kiln sand adhering
11 1/8in (28.3cm) high
Footnotes
For a jar of similar form, size and decoration of a bullocho band above chrysanthemums, orchids and a garden rock in the Horim Museum, see Joseon baekja myeongpum-jeon (Masterpieces of Choson White Porcelain), Seoul, 2003, cat. no. 243, p. 235 (30.6cm high, as 18th century). From the same publication, see also a slightly smaller jar combining the chrysanthemums, rock and orchids with bamboo, also with a bullocho band along the rim, cat. no. 51, p. 66 (25.5cm high, also as 18th century).
The contrast between the supple leafy twigs and a thick upright stalk in the bamboo painted on this jar recalls similar compositions by Joseon scholar painters. See, for example, the eight-panel screen with bamboo paintings by Yu Deok-Jang (1675-1756), published by Kumja Paik Kim in The Art of Korea: Highlights from the Collection of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, 2006, cat. no. 62, leaf 2, p. 187.
A blue and white jar of similar size and shape, but painted with birds on flowering branches set between two bands of bullocho, sold in Sotheby's, New York, Korean Works of Art sale 7336, 13 September 1999, lot 34 (12 1/2in/31.7cm high, also as 18th century).