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KOREAN WORKS OF ART
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
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A BUDDHIST PAINTING OF THE TEJAPRABHA BUDDHA A COPPER RED GLAZED WATER DROPPER
Choson dynasty, 18th/19th century Joseon dynasty, 19th century
Ink and color on silk, unmounted and with paper backing; the Of square section with rectangular walls and flat base, an air hole at
Buddha seated above a personification of the North Pole star (Pukkuk the center and a tiny spout hole opened at one corner, the top and
song) accompanied by the bodhisattvas of the sun and moon and sides molded in slightly raised linear relief with overlapping lozenges
surrounded by the seven Buddhas, the navagraha (nine planets), and overlapping rings attached to trailing ribbons and a copper red
twenty-eight constellations and other heavenly deities, the center wash applied beneath a glaze that fires unevenly to olive brown on
bottom with a red rectangular donor panel (losses, trimmed). some sides, the base left unglazed
41 x 55in (104.4 x 140cm) 2 x 3in (5 x 7.5cm) square
$2,000 - 4,000 $5,000 - 8,000
The composition of this painting incorporates Taoist and Shamanist For a copper-red-glazed water dropper of similar square shape, but
elements, typical of complex traditional Korean theology. It was with additional underglaze blue decoration, see Oriental Ceramics: The
probably painted to be placed behind a large central sculpture. World’s Great Collections, Vol. 2: National Museum of Korea, Seoul,
Tokyo, 1982, cat. no. 311 (also as 19th century).
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AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND IRON-DECORATED WATER PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL
DROPPER IN THE FORM OF THE GEUMGANG MOUNTAINS CHARLES S. HOGE, ACQUIRED IN KOREA PRIOR TO 1950
Joseon dynasty, 19th century
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nestled amid finger-like peaks that also disguise an air hole at the top A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR SHAPED BOTTLE WITH
and a tiny water spot to one side, the surfaces colored with iron and LONGEVITY SYMBOLS
cobalt washes beneath a glaze of pale blue-green hue that intensifies Joseon dynasty, 19th century
in color where thickly pooled, the glaze also covering the recessed Carefully formed with a rolled lip to the long neck spreading outward
base within the unglazed circular foot pad above a compressed globular body and freely painted in cobalt blue
4 3/8in (11cm) high with elements from the Ten Signs of Long Life (Shipjaengsaeng) that
$15,000 - 25,000 include a leaping deer, fungus branches, bamboo, rock and crane
flying amid clouds, the short foot also painted with a cobalt line and
A number of these whimsical mountain-shaped water droppers are the pale greenish-white glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad
published from various collections. For examples in blue and white (rim chip, stained firing cracks).
porcelain, see The Radiance of Jade and the Clarity of Water: Korean 9 1/4in (23.5cm) high
Ceramics from the Ataka Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, $6,000 - 8,000
1991. cat. no. 112, p. 148; and Christie’s, New York, Korean Works
of Art sale 7430, 22 April 1992, lot 52. For examples combining PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MS. NAOMI LINDSTROM,
underglaze blue and iron washes similar to this lot, see the water SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
dropper that entered the collection of the Musée Guimet in 1893,
illustrated in The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Tradition 1392- 2475
1910, Paris, 2005, cat. no. 46, p. 104; and Sotheby’s, New York, A CAST BRONZE PEAR-FORM BOTTLE
Korean Works of Art sale 6961, 18 March 1997, lot 44. Goryeo dynasty
Formed with a delicate rolled rim and raised string band to the flared
neck, the string bands repeating down the curving walls of the body,
the tall foot also finished with a rolled edge and enclosing a separately
made base plate (extensive burial deposits).
11 3/4in (30cm) high
$2,000 - 4,000
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