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The group comprises a blue-glazed fish-shaped water dropper; a blue and white circular water dropper decorated to the surface with a landscape scene; a white-glazed water dropper and cover; a cream and brown glazed peach-form water dropper.
The peach-shaped water dropper with a height of 8.50 cm.
The white glazed water dropper and cover with a height of 7.5 cm.
The blue and white circular water dropper with a height of 3.5 cm and a diameter of 9.0 cm.
The blue glazed fish water dropper with a height of 2.5 cm and a width of 7.5 cm.
Catalogue notes:
Compare a very similar water dropper in the shape of a fish dated to the late 19th century from the Kang Collection in the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, accession no. 2003.549.
Compare a water dropper also decorated with a landscape but of angular form dated to the 19th century in the Honolulu Museum of Art, accession no. 502.1.
Compare a blue and white version of a peach-form water dropper dated to the 19th century in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, accession no. 01049.
Provenance: a European private collection.
Condition: The white water dropper and cover:
There is a small hairline associated with a firing crack to the rim (approx. 0.5 cm.).
The circular water dropper:
There is a fine hairline to the spout (approx. 1.5 cm.).
The fish water dropper:
There are fine glaze cracks.
The peach water dropper:
There is a firing crack to the body.
All: with general wear and various chips.
Origin: Korea
Period: Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), 19th century
Sizes: 3.50 cm. H x 9.00 cm. diameter
1.38 in. H x 3.54 in. diameter