A INLAID CELADON BALUSTER VASE, MAEBYONG

13TH CENTURY

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A INLAID CELADON BALUSTER VASE, MAEBYONG
13th century
The elegantly-waisted body scattered with cranes and cloud scrolls between a geometric band at the foot and a lotus-lappet collar at the high shoulder below the short flaring mouth, restored
10½in. (27cm.) high

Lot Essay

Slightly larger maebyong with this design can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol.11, no.222; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated ibid., vol.10, no.59; in the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, ibid., vol.2, colour plate 18 (with cover). A similar maebyong, also slightly larger, was included in the Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1916, Catalogue, no.285.

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