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Vase with Bird and Flower Design

백자 청화 화조문 호 [白磁靑畵花鳥文壺]

late 1800s–early 1900s
Measurements
Outer diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.); Overall: 49.4 cm (19 7/16 in.)
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Location
236 Korean
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Nineteenth-century Korean blue-and-white porcelains tend to feature broad shoulders and a tall neck.

Description

This vase with broad shoulders and a tall neck represents a typical style of 19th-century blue-and-white porcelain. Unlike earlier examples decorated mainly with literati themes that evoke neo-Confucian moral values—plum blossoms (purity), orchids (grace), bamboo (integrity), and chrysanthemums (loftiness)—porcelain works of the 1800s feature fully bloomed peonies and a pair of playful birds, symbols of wealth and familial harmony.
A white porcelain vase features blue peony flowers, widening to broad shoulders from a narrow base and then narrowing back in at the neck. The peonies jut up in loose strokes from the base, the frilly flowers blooming at the widest part of the vase and blue three-pronged leaves sprouting from the stem and behind the flowers.

Vase with Bird and Flower Design

late 1800s–early 1900s

Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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