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.