백자 동화 포도 무늬 항아리 조선|白磁銅畫葡萄文壺 朝鮮|Jar with grapevine decoration

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mid-18th century · Porcelain with underglaze copper-red design · Asian Art

Like blossoms and bamboo, grapes and grapevines were popular subjects in Joseon ceramics and ink paintings. On this rotund jar, the vines and large leaves are painted in copper red—a pigment more difficult to manipulate than cobalt blue or iron brown. Vessels with similar shapes and copper-red designs were made during the eighteenth century at kilns not linked to the court porcelain manufacturing center (Bunwon).

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-18th century

Medium

Porcelain with underglaze copper-red design

Culture

Korea

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975