Altar Dish
Korean
Description
Physical Description:
A tall glazed and speckled white-blue porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder. Where the base of the dish and the top of the base meet there is a bowl-shape ring as the bottom of the dish and a wide angled lip that surrounds it.
A type of white porcelain ritual vessel, this cup stand was produced at a kiln in Bunwon-ri, Gwanju-si, Gyeonggido, the last official court kiln of the Joseon Dynasty. Its foot is high and has coarse sand spur marks on the foot rim. It is robust, flawless and coated with a transparent glaze with pale blue tints.
[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.201]
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