Jar with Design of Pomegranates and Birds

Description In the 18th and 19th centuries, blue-and-white porcelain became common. Before then, blue-and-white porcelain was almost entirely restricted to palace use. The cobalt necessary to produce the blue was hard to obtain and expensive.

Exhibitions

• Like the Taste of Good Rice: Art from Korea. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993.

Provenance Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Cassilly [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by gift.

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Cassilly, 1990