An Incised Porcelain Cup
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An Incised Porcelain Cup

KORYO DYNASTY (12TH CENTURY)

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An Incised Porcelain Cup
Koryo Dynasty (12th Century)
Round, set on a short ring foot, incised in the interior below the delicate, slender rim with four chrysanthemum sprays centering a single chrysanthemum flowerhead in the well, and incised on the exterior below the rim with a band of fretwork; the cup also decorated with a thin transparent glaze of high sheen and dense crackle and tinged green above the foot, three spur marks on glazed base
3¼in. (8.2cm.) diameter; 1¾in. (4.7cm.) high

Specialist note

For another cup see Choi Sunu, Hasebe Gakuji and Zauho Press, Korai/Koryo Dynasty, vol. 18 of Sekai toji zenshu/Ceramic Art of the World (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1978), fig. 59; for a porcelain bowl incised with chrysanthemums see Rhee Byung-chang, Korai toji/Koryo Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), pl. 325.