a group of four earthenware iron-red glazed epitaph plaques


Joseon dynasty, dated by inscription to 1702-1703The four small rectangular brick-like plaques of reddish hue covered in freely written brown Hanjea characters, the inscription briefly describing the career of the deceased, Pyun Engkwan, including a dedication to his surviving widow and the date of his burial described as 75 years after the start of the Ming dynasty's final Chongzhen era; now mounted in a horizontal modern frame each plaque 5 1/4 x 3 1/4in (13.3 x 5.3cm)total dimensions of frame 11 1/8 x 23 1/4in (28.3 x 59cm)
|For another small iron-red glazed epitaph plaque dated to 1667 and sharing a similar folk-art sensibility, see Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Yuen no iro, shitsuboku no katachi: Ri Josho korekushon Kankoku toji no bi (Color of Elegance, Form of Simplicity: The Beauty of Korean Ceramics from the Rhee Byung-chang Collection), Osaka, 1999, cat. no. 202, pp. 226 and 360.