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Large Globular Jar with Decoration of Auspicious Emblems and Chinese Characters Reading "Pok Su Kang Nyŏng" (Happiness, Longevity, Health, and Peace)
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Rising from a short, circular foot, the body of this jar expands into a pleasantly spherical form and then constricts to a relatively tall, cylindrical neck. Four Chinese characters, which when pronounced in Korean read Pok (happiness), Su (longevity), Kang (health), and Nyŏng (peace), are set within circular medallions; auspicious emblems embellish the spaces between the medallions. Double-bowstring borderlines encircle the lip and foot, subtly demarcating the vessel's boundaries. The proportionally tall neck on this jar indicates that it was created in the nineteenth century.
Department of Asian Art
Private collection Japan; through Bluett and Son London (in the mid-1960s); to Ray Thompson Collection London and Italy; through Christie's New York (early 2000s); through Kang Collection New York; to Harvard Art Museum.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Dorothy Tapper Goldman David M. Leventhal Dyann and Peter Wirth and through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for the Acquisition of Asian Art
Title: Large Globular Jar with Decoration of Auspicious Emblems and Chinese Characters Reading "Pok Su Kang Nyŏng" (Happiness, Longevity, Health, and Peace)
Description:
Rising from a short, circular foot, the body of this jar expands into a pleasantly spherical form and then constricts to a relatively tall, cylindrical neck.
Four Chinese characters, which when pronounced in Korean read Pok (happiness), Su (longevity), Kang (health), and Nyŏng (peace), are set within circular medallions; auspicious emblems embellish the spaces between the medallions.
Double-bowstring borderlines encircle the lip and foot, subtly demarcating the vessel's boundaries.
The proportionally tall neck on this jar indicates that it was created in the nineteenth century.
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