Artworks

Moon jar (Leach – Lucie Rie jar)

Artwork · Anonymous · 17th century–18th century · moon jar · British Museum

A Chosŏn white porcelain moon jar that Bernard Leach bought in Korea in 1935 and gave to Lucie Rie in 1943; she kept it in her studio, where Lord Snowdon photographed her with it, and the British Museum later bought it. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 18–19, fig. 8. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.