A Small blue and white porcelain dish


Joseon dynasty (1392-1897), 19th centuryThe small, shallow dish painted in variegated underglaze blue with a bat and butterfly hovering above a flowering branch, the rim with concentric bands, the underside painted with three abbreviated ribbon-tied "jewels" encircling the footWith a wooden storage box 6 3/4in (17.2cm) diameter
|For other blue-and-white decorated porcelain dishes see; Sunu Choi, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Vol. 2, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Tokyo/San Francisco: Kodansha, 1982, no. 274-282.