Two wood scroll pots


Late Joseon dynastyThe two massive cylinders surmounted by slightly outward curving edges, the sides carved in high relief in a continuous folk-like tableau of waterfowl in a lotus pond. 13 3/8 and 11 3/4in (34 and 30cm) high
|ProvenanceBy repute, purchased from a Northern Chinese antique dealer in Shanghai, 1999-2007For larger circular wooden Korean vessels of similar folk style and quality see the two beehives in Choi Soon-Woo et al, Folk Art of Korea [Hankuk Minyae Misul] (Seoul: National Museum of Korea Tongchun Moonhwa Publishing Co., 1975), nos. 65-66. The waterfowl and lotus designs in the present lot are consistent with the Korean aesthetic of the late Joseon period; see nos. 368-371 and 373 in ibid.