A Punch'ong Stoneware Bottle

A Punch'ong Stoneware Bottle
Choson Period (15th Century)
Of pear form on a high ring foot, inlaid with a wide frieze of scrolling bosang hwa and several butterflies in white slip which forms an even ground on one plane with the body, and with bands of fretwork, around the foot, a wide white band above the foot, and below successive bands of stylized, arching grasses, stiff leaves and parallel vertical lines engraved through the white slip at the neck; the vessel also decorated by a transparent glaze of pronounced green tinge
115/8in. (29.3cm.) high