A FINE PORCELAIN WATER DROPPER IN THE FORM OF A HOUSE Joseon dynasty (1392-1897), 19th centuryProperty of various ownersA FINE PORCELAIN WATER DROPPER IN THE FORM OF A HOUSEJoseon dynasty (1392-1897), 19th centuryOf square profile raised on short bracket feet, modelled with a four-sided pitched roof with tile ridging painted in underglaze cobalt and pierced with an aperture at the center top and at one corner, the sides molded with columnar supports and painted with a pair of doors on the front and a window at each side, and the whole applied with a transparent glaze, the base slightly recessed 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8in (8.5 x 8.5 x 8.5cm)For another house-form water dropper in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, see Richo no bunbogu The Scholar's Implements of the Yi Dynasty, Korea, exhibition catalog (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1994), pl. 71.