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A tall octagonal-sectioned blue and white bottle vase Joseon dynasty, 18th century
18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
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A tall octagonal-sectioned blue and white bottle vase
Joseon dynasty, 18th century
Formed with a rolled circular rim but molded with eight facets down the tall neck, pear-shaped body and tall foot, the principal face of the vase loosely painted with two birds perched on leafy branches with prunus blossoms and reversed by another prunus branch, each rising from a single line drawn around the lower body, the densely crazed glaze on the interior and exterior walls of faint blue-green hue but burnt a very pale pink where thinly applied on sections of the interior foot and deeply recessed base
14 1/2in (37 cm) high
Formed with a rolled circular rim but molded with eight facets down the tall neck, pear-shaped body and tall foot, the principal face of the vase loosely painted with two birds perched on leafy branches with prunus blossoms and reversed by another prunus branch, each rising from a single line drawn around the lower body, the densely crazed glaze on the interior and exterior walls of faint blue-green hue but burnt a very pale pink where thinly applied on sections of the interior foot and deeply recessed base
14 1/2in (37 cm) high
Footnotes
The faceted shape of this bottle conforms to a number of eighteenth century examples with varied decoration: see the vase painted with plum blossoms and bamboo from the Song-am Art Museum, Inch'on, included in Hongnam Kim (ed), Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century: Splendor and Simplicity, New York, 1993, cat. no. 50, illustrated p. 143 and pp. 216-17 (15 3/8in/39cm high). See also the vase with prunus branches in flower above a double line along the lower body published by the Horim Museum and illustrated in Joseon baekja myeongpum-jeon (Masterpieces of Choson White Porcelain), Seoul, 2003, cat. no. 136, p. 149. A third example, also with flowering prunus branches but reversed by bamboo, is illustrated in Masterpieces of the Ho-am Art Museum I, Antique Art, 1 Ceramics, Seoul, 1996, cat. no. 134, p. 143 (35cm high).