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A BLUE AND WHITE DECORATED PORCELAIN BOTTLE                            A BLUE AND WHITE DECORATED PORCELAIN DISH
Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), 19th century                               Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), 19th century
With a globular lower body and tall cylindrical neck ending in a       The small, shallow dish painted in variegated underglaze-blue with
slightly everted lip, decorated around the perimeter with a pair of    a bat and butterfly hovering above a flowering branch, the rim with
birds perched on a flowering prunus tree near a hovering butterfly     concentric bands, the underside painted with three abbreviated
in dark lines and medium washes of underglaze blue, covered in a       ribbon-tied ‘jewels’ encircling the foot, applied with a transparent
transparent glaze                                                      glaze with a crackle pattern
With wood storage box                                                  With wood storage box
7 7/8in (20.1cm) high                                                  6 3/4in (17.2cm) diameter

US$2,000 - 3,000                                                       US$12,000 - 15,000

A similar but smaller bottle decorated with flowering prunus is        Other blue-and-white decorated porcelain dishes are illustrated in
illustrated in Christie’s New York, Korean Works of Art (sale #7988),  Sunu Choi, The World’s Great Collections Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 2:
25 October 1994, lot 40.                                               National Museum of Korea, Seoul, (Tokyo/San Francisco, 1982), no.
                                                                       274-282.

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