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Various Owners 各方藏家 Whilst the high neck of the present lot is particularly unusual, the
dragon freely rendered in underglaze iron-oxide in a very simplified style
20 is typical of Korean pieces, conveying the idea of the animal rather than
A large Korean beige-ground ovoid jar the detail.
Choson Dynasty, probably 17th/18th century
Freely painted in underglaze brown wash with a striding scaly dragon Similar examples of such dragons on large, bulbous jars are illustrated
amidst cloud-like scrolling loops, beneath double ribs at the neck by Yun Yong-I, Korean Art from the Gompertz and other Collections
also painted with scattered cloud scrolls, the clear glaze with a fine in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2006, no.175, and R.Goepper
craquelure and reaching down the interior of the neck. and R.Whitfield, Treasures from Korea, London, 1984, no. 202. See
37.5cm (14¾in) high also further examples from the Duksoo Palace Museum illustrated
£10,000 - 15,000 by G.St.G.M.Gompertz, Korean Pottery & Porcelain of the Yi Period,
HK$120,000 - 180,000 CNY94,000 - 140,000 London, 1968, nos.67 and 69. Compare also a related jar sold at
Christie’s New York, 18 March 2008, lot 423.
朝鮮王朝 或十七/十八世紀 韓國龍紋罐
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