Blue-and-white Porcelain Jar with Orchid Design
This jar features a clear and elegant orchid design, drawn over a simple horizontal line to represent the ground. With a delicate fragrance that emanates great distances through the air, orchids came to symbolize the noble character and virtue of the literati, and thus frequently appeared in Joseon paintings and literature. Produced in the eighteenth century, this jar exemplifies the refined beauty of simple strokes and undecorated space.