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A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN DRAGON JAR PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Japan
JOSEON DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY)
Senshutey, Tokyo, Japan
Of high-shouldered ovoid form with tall, upright neck, decorated in
cobalt underglaze with two four-clawed dragons chasing the flaming In Korean mythology, the dragon is a benevolent creature that
pearl in the midst of scallop-shaped clouds, the wide frieze between controls the rain and clouds needed for successful crops. The
cloud and line borders, the foot and rim encircled by narrow single three-claw dragon was employed as a decorative device when
or double-lines of underglaze blue and the whole jar applied with a potters began to paint with iron-brown underglaze in the late
crackled clear glaze fifteenth century. A fourth claw, as on this jar, was added to show
16Ω in. (41.9 cm.) high the dragon grasping a flaming pearl, derived from the Buddhist

$60,000-80,000 cintamani, or "wish-granting jewel."