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An Important and Monumental Blue and White Porcelain Dragon Jar
JOSEON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)
An Important and Monumental Blue and White Porcelain Dragon Jar Joseon dynasty (18th century) Expressively painted in alternating tones of underglaze cobalt blue with two five-clawed dragons chasing two flaming pearls around the perimeter of the jar, above and below the dragons are cross-shaped clusters of scalloped clouds interspersed with smaller cloud ribbons; the upright neck painted with pale tones of underglaze blue with a band of scrolling foliage and the base of the neck with a collar of clouds in the shapes of auspicious fungus heads; the tapered foot painted with a wide band of lappets and the flared foot with a narrower band of unusual half-fungus-head, triangular cloud motifs; the body additionally applied with a lustrous transparent overglaze 23 13/16in. (60.5cm) high; 16 7/8in. (43cm) approx. diameter Compare the Dragon Jar sold in these Rooms, 23 March 2011, lot 1004. For the jar in the National Museum of Ceramics, Sèvres, see Beurangseu Sebeureu kungnip toja pangmulgwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae Collections Coréenes du Musée national de céramique de Sèvres, France Korean Collection of Sèvres National Ceramics Museum, France , Haeoe sojae munhwajae chosaso , vol. 15 (Republic of Korea: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, 2006), pl. 104. For the five-claw dragon jar dated to the mid-eighteenth century in the Rhee Byung-chang Collection in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka (55.2 cm; acc. no. 21763), see Itoh Ikutaro, ed., Yuen no iro, shitsuboku no katachi: Ri Heiso korekushon Kankoku toji no bi Color of Elegance Form of Simplicity: The Beauty of Korean Ceramics from the Rhee Byung-chang Collection Uahan saek, sunbakhan hyeongtae: Yi Byeong-chang kolleksyeon Hanguk tojagi eui areumdaum , exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1999), pl. 130; or access online at www.moco.or.jp/en/products/product.php. For another jar in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka (56.2 cm; acc. no. 20764), see also Itoh Ikutaro, Yuen no iro , fig. 64, p. 335; and Richo koki sometsuke Blue and White of the Choson Dynasty (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1999), pl. 4. For the five-claw dragon jar in the Ho-Am Museum (47.2 cm), see Joseon heugi gukbojeon: Widaehan munhwa yusan eul chajaseo Treasures of the Late Choson Dynasty, 1700-1910 , exh. cat. (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation and Ho-Am Gallery; Yongin: Ho-Am Art Museum, 1998), pl. 86. Compare also the jar (57.7 cm) sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1995, lot 43, published in Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art: Traditional Art Collection (Seoul: Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, n.d.), pls. 160-61.