Live Auction 20621Japanese and Korean Art Including the Collection of David and Nayda Utterberg
A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN BOTTLE VASE
Lot 262

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN BOTTLE VASE

JOSEON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)

Closed22 March 2022

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USD 40,000–60,000

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A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN BOTTLE VASE
JOSEON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)
The faceted octagonal form with slightly flared long neck, with circular foot, painted in underglaze-blue with deer and crane among pine tree, bamboo and rock symbolizing elements of Ten Signs of Long Life (shipjaengsaeng), the body applied with a lustrous transparent overglaze
12 1⁄8 in. (30.8 cm.) high

Specialist note

This work is decorarated with imagery motifs from the Ten Signs of Long Life derived from the Daoist immortality cult that developed originally in China during the Han dynasty. Their auspicious symbolism was extremely popular in all strata of Korean society during the Joseon dynasty and they appear in most of the decorative arts of this period. Many of these, as here, use a selection of the set of motifs to represent all ten.