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Altar Dish

Korean

Artwork Details

Altar Dish
late 19th century
Korean
ceramic
2 15/16 x 4 11/16 x 4 11/16 in. (7.4 x 11.8 x 11.8 cm)
Gift of Ok Ja Chang and the Chang Family
2009/2.41

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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