A large blue and white vase. Korea. Joseon dynasty, 19th century - image-1

Lot 113 Dα

A large blue and white vase. Korea. Joseon dynasty, 19th century

Auction 1112 - overview Cologne
15.06.2018, 11:00 - Chinese, Tibet/Neapel, India, Southeast Asia
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 59.520 € (incl. premium)
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A large blue and white vase. Korea. Joseon dynasty, 19th century

Thickly potted with cylindrical neck and rounded shoulder tapering in towards the foot, decorated in underglaze grey-blue with numerous roundels with the longevity su (shou) symbol between a cloud pattern at the shoulder and a band of petals at the foot. The tall neck with five clouds between a petal and a key-fret border.
Height 52 cm

The vase from the Gregory Henderson collection (former Foreign Service Officer and specialist for Korea, 1922 - 1988) is also marked Un Hyon 'Cloud Hill' on the base, which probably means the name of the palace in which the Prince Regent of Korea lived during his reign from 1864-1873. It is suggested in the Henderson catalogue that "such pieces were used as targets for darts in a game played by women of the court and little princes".

Provenance

Private collection since the 1950s

Literature

Compare an identical vase from the collection of Gregory Henderson in the Harvard Art Museum, no. 1991.624, illustrated in Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exhib.cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, 1969, p. 19 and 59, no. 136