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2586. (NV 1167)
[[stamp]] SMITHSONIAN. [[/stamp]] 1744

One Ovoid Jar, with broadly rounding shoulder, and embryonic neck immediately recurving in a short expanding lip. Korai. Korean. 

Minutely cracked glaze of soft creamy tone and lustrous surface, on the exterior, which is traversed also by series of grayish-black rings, a band of three rings appearing just under the lip, two broader double rings encircling the shoulder, and still other rings embracing the foot. The glaze is of the hakeme (brush) variety The jar is further adorned about the foot by a lotus border freely penciled in blackish-brown. Interior glassed in gray, which also coats the lip, one section of which reveals an underglaze wash of copper-brown. Broad, flat foot, slightly hollowed, unglazed within. (Lip slightly restored.) 
Height, 12".
With wood stand. 
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York, Voucher #11 May,1918, 350.00

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