Lot 26
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A PUNCH'ONG TEA BOWL

Details
A PUNCH'ONG TEA BOWL
CHOSON DYNASTY (15TH/16TH CENTURY)

The deep bowl resting on a high and sturdy ring foot enclosing a recessed base with everted center, base fashioned in a nearly perfect circle with only slightly angled walls centering the recessed well, covered with creamy white slip overall save for small areas at the rim and foot and on one smudge mark on the side, and then covered by a transparent glaze with fine crackle pooling to thick, pale green above the ring foot and on the base, seven spur marks in the well- 3 1/16 in. (7.7 cm.) high; 5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm.) diameter, gold lacquer restorations above foot

Lot Essay

Published in Goro Akaboshi and Heiichiro Nakamaru, Korean Ceramics, Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (New York, Tokyo and Kyoto: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1975), no. 11, where the bowl is identified as manufactured at a kiln near Kumsan Temple in Chungchung Province. The authors state that the bowl is distinctive for its depth and thick glaze, applied twice at the waist. The diameter mentioned in the footnote to the plate is incorrect.

For examples of similar Punch'ong wares [commonly called Kohiki wares] see Exhibition of Kohiki, Punch'ong Ware with Overall White Slip, Yi Dynasty (Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1986); Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 14 (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1956), pl. 74