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A Rare Massive White Porcelain Jar
Lot 761

A Rare Massive White Porcelain Jar

JOSEON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)

Closed20 March 2013

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A Rare Massive White Porcelain Jar
Joseon dynasty (18th century)
Of distinctive proportions, with high, rounded shoulders above a tall body that tapers inward toward the foot, the upright neck slightly everted and completed by a rounded rim, the vessel decorated with a transparent glaze that exhibits a blue cast in the areas it has been more thickly applied; residue of kiln grit evident on the base and at the foot
22 x 17 3/8in. (56 x 45cm.)

Specialist note

This jar is remarkable for its height and girth and there are accordingly few comparable examples published. For a jar of 53.5 cm in the collection of the Nihon Mingeikan, Tokyo, see Nihon Mingeikan shozo Chosen toji mokuroku (Catalogue of Joseon-dynasty ceramics in the Nihon Mingeikan), pl. 48; and Rhee Byung-chang, Richo toji Yi Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), no. 158. For other jars, see Samsung Art Museum, Joseon paekja jon (Exhibition of Joseon-dynasty white porcelain), Part 1, exh. cat. (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation, 1983), no. 34.