Description
OCTOGONAL VASE in porcelain and blue-white enamels, decorated with a young tiger resting under a large longevity pine and a deer approaching. The vase is adorned with a small, slightly flared neck. (Firing flaws, cracks) Korea, Choseon period, 18th-19th centuries. A BLUE AND WHITE TIGER AND PINE DECORATED OCTAGONAL PORCELAIN VASE, KOREA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY. HEIGHT. 33,5 CM (13 3/16 IN.) PROVENANCE Former collection of Yoichiro Ogawa (1939-2002). PUBLICATION Desroches (J.-P.), ed, Two Americans in Paris, A Quest for Asian Art (Paris: Lienart Editions, 2016), pl. 336, pp. 208-209. NOTE Tigers appear frequently in nineteenth-century Korean art, including ceramics, lacquer, and painting. Although a symbol of strength and ferocity, the animal is often depicted with a humorous and expressive face, as on this blue-white vase. Here, a single tiger sits meekly by a pine tree. This motif is one of the most popular in Korea. Similar decoration on a jar in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reference L.2016.43.10a, b.
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OCTOGONAL VASE in porcelain and blue-white enamels, decorated with a young tiger resting under a large longevity pine and a deer approaching. The vase is adorned with a small, slightly flared neck. (Firing flaws, cracks) Korea, Choseon period, 18th-19th centuries. A BLUE AND WHITE TIGER AND PINE DECORATED OCTAGONAL PORCELAIN VASE, KOREA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY. HEIGHT. 33,5 CM (13 3/16 IN.) PROVENANCE Former collection of Yoichiro Ogawa (1939-2002). PUBLICATION Desroches (J.-P.), ed, Two Americans in Paris, A Quest for Asian Art (Paris: Lienart Editions, 2016), pl. 336, pp. 208-209. NOTE Tigers appear frequently in nineteenth-century Korean art, including ceramics, lacquer, and painting. Although a symbol of strength and ferocity, the animal is often depicted with a humorous and expressive face, as on this blue-white vase. Here, a single tiger sits meekly by a pine tree. This motif is one of the most popular in Korea. Similar decoration on a jar in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reference L.2016.43.10a, b.
