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A Rare Korean 8 Province Map in Joseon Dynasty: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century Painted in color and ink on paper, its titles and city’s names stamped, hand colored in oceans and rivers in ink and color, and names of cities in red. They are in good condition with minor damages associated with age. Measurements; 29.8cm x 20cm each map

Korean Landscape Painting by Lee Yeol Mo (1933- ): “Autumn Landscape of Palace Kyungbok” Pen name; Chang Woon, Artist name; Lee Yeol Mo(1933- Signed Chang Woon, red sealed Lee Yeol Mo It is a watercolor, painted on paper, very good condition, glazed wood framed with a plexi glass. Measurements; 60 ½” x 42” (154cm x 106.5cm) painting only, or 68 ½” x 49 ½” (174cm x 126cm) *** The artist’s painting collected by Hoam Art Museun, Youngin, Korea Please see an Exhibition...

A Paulonia Wood Scholar’s Ink-Stone Box (Yon-Sang): Korea, Choson period, 19th Century, This is a simple Paulonia wood ink stone bos, but it’s functional ink-stone box with naïve patina outsides. This three-tiered box stored the writing tools; ink sticks, water droppers, brushes and books. The opened shelf at the bottom allowed books and rolls of paper to be immediately accessible and its horizontal draw allowed ink sticks, brushes and other scholar’s utensils. This ink-stone box...

A Very Fine/Rare Pair of Papier Marche Wedding Ducks: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th Century, This pair of male and female weddding ducks created with details of the wings’ feathers realistically,these ducks formed in wood, covered many layers with Korean traditional paper from the wood (the paper mulberry) and then oiled on it. This pairs were made for wedding ceremony in Choson (Yi) dynasty (19th century). It could be made only skilled crafted shipman. The Korean wedding ducks are one of ...

A Very Rare/Fine Blue and White Bottle: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century The domed body with everted spout and slightly recessed foot, painted with bat and floral plants alternated on the body in under glaze blue, the spout applied with blue tinged white glaze overall. It’s in very fine condition without any damages but age scratches. It measurem 8cm H. x 7.5cm D (3 1/8” x 3”)

A Very Fine Reach Green Celadon Bowl: Korea, Koryo Dynasty, 12th Century: The wide bowl set on a short ring foot and incised a single ring on the interior, applied evenly with a beautiful green celadon glaze overall, ring foot unglazed with spur marks. This bowl is in fine condition without any repairs but a sesame seed-size chip to the rim.. It measures 17.5 cm x 6.5 cm (7 7/8” x 2 5/8”)

Very Rare/Fine White Slip Inlaid Punchong Cup: Korea, 15th century The deep bowl of cylindrical form sharply angled towards the base and set on a raised ring foot, decorated with white slip rain-spot inlaid on the exterior between double rings, In the interior, a ring medallion surrounded by a white slip inlaid Ruyi pattern band ring, foot rim unglazed and the base glazed with a grey celadon. It’s in fine condition but a tiny chip repaired. Measurements; 8.5cm x 3.8cm h.

Ryu-Chun, Kim Wha-Kyung(1922-1979): $12,000. A Winter Landscape, Framed with a plexi glass. This painting painted with an old traditional Korean country house and a pleasing dog in winter snowing scene. Signed lower right Ryu-Chun and sealed Kim Wha Kyung, painted in ink and color on paper. It is in very fine condition, Measures; 119.5 cm x 118 cm. About Artist; He was born in Seoul and graduated from the Tokyo Art School in i944. His work was shown at the “Sun Exhibition”, and at th...

A Fine White Porcelain Incense Burner: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century The globular body set on a raised, slightly fraring ring foot and with sharply everted rim and applied handles, with a domed cover, pierced with buddhistic tragrams and a pierced dodecahedrom form finial, decorated in a thick white, clear, blue tinged glaze. It’s in fine condition but some hair line cracks on body. Measurements: 17cm H. x16cm D. (6 ¾” x 6 ¼”).

A Fine Inlaid White Slip Punchong Shallow Bowl: Korea, early Joseon dynasty, 15th -16th century Ashallowed stoneware bowl tapering to a raised ring foot, decorated with brushed white slip inlaid with a centural medallion containing a flowerhead surrounded by bands of “rope-curtain” design and multiful ring patern, the exterior decotated with also mutiful white slip ring inlays, beneath a pale celadon glaze. It’s in fine condition except 2 hair line cracks. Measurements: 19.5cm x...

A Very Rare/Fine Koryo Bronze Midium Sized Basin,13th C. Korea, Koryo dynasty (11th-14th century) A very well potioned middle sized bronze basin with a silver-black and blue patina on its surfaces around is a very rare with this condition. Its patination is more attractive to this basin. Its shape of basin is exactly a prototype of Koryo celadon ceramics in Koryo dynasty. It’s in very fine condition but a tiny hole on the base. Measurements: 27cm x 6cm

A Rare and Fine Early White Porcelain Wine Bottle: Korea, early Joseon period, 15th century This small, charming and well portioned bottle applied with a clear blusih white glaze overall the surfaces including the bottom, the foot rim has some sand adhered. It’s in good condition but a small part of the rim repaired. Measurements; 11.7cm x 9cm (4.5” x 3.5”).

A Very Rare/Old Silver Inlaid Iron Caddle Stick: Korea, Joseon Period, 18th –early 19th Century This silver inlaid iron candle stick is of a slender elegant design in an asymmetrical H-shape, and is composed of three parts; light reflecting mirror silver inlaid with “Longevity”, “Happyness” and a “Yin-Yang”, candle holder with a silver inlaid chain attacher and removeable snuffer (snuffer missing) from the supporting stand post silver inlaid and its Dot-shape joint silve...

A Rare / Very Finely Molded Celadon Beaker: Korea, Koryo period, 12th Century, This is a finely molded with chrysanthemums amongst scrolling foliage and well potted deep bowl tapering to a short ring foot, applied overall rich celadon glaze except foot rim with spur marks. It is in very fine condition without any damage. Measures 4 1/2” x 1 1/2”h.

A Rare Early White Porcelain Brush Washer Jar: Korea, early Joseon dynasty, 15th century This type of wide mouthed and narrowed foot rim jar with a greyish clear white porcelain is an example of the first efforts during the Korean early Joseon period to produce white ceramic wares, this early white glazed porcelain jar or bottle is rare as a Korean ceramics. It’s in good condition with a small piece of the mouth rim chipped, and has some darkish white glaze on the body during kiln firi...

A Very Rare Hae-Tae White (Olive) Glazed Water Dropper: Korea, Joseon Period, 19th century This is a quite large sized and Amusingly molded as a recumbent figure of a mythical lion dog (hae-tae), the surface detailing incised and realistically modeled, decorated with a white glze, but in this water dropper, this white glaze turned into a olive glaze due to under firing circumstances. It’s in very fine condition, measures 8.9cm x 4.5cm

A Very Fine Nephrite White Jade Pendant: China, Qing dynasty,19th -early 1900s. It is very fine white nephrite pendant carved with a horse or mythical animal (?), there is no any mottled color in this white jade, an well carved with incised details the head, mouth and tail. It’s in very fine condition without any damages. It measures 4.3cm w. x 2.3cm d. x 3cm h.

A Very Rare Blue/White Bottle Painted with Shipzangsang Motifs (the Symbols of 10 Long Life): Korea, Choson dynasty, 19th century Well potted shape and portion with a flared rim to the tall neck and a pear-shaped body painted in shades of cobalt with alternating motis of cranes flying amid clouds and bamboo stalks paired with garden rocks (They are symbols of 10 logevity), the celadon-tinged glaze covering all surfaces except the pad of the recessed foot. It is in very fine codition with...