A DOUBLE-GOURD-FORM CELADON EWER

KORYO DYNASTY (12TH-13TH CENTURY)

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A DOUBLE-GOURD-FORM CELADON EWER
koryo dynasty (12th-13th century)
Moulded with a gently curved, oval spout and rope-twist handle with top loop for attachement to the cover, incised on the large, lower body with a lotus spray on opposite sides and with a serrated, leaf-form outline surrounding the spout and the lower handle where they join the body, and with an additional slender line of foliage within the leaf-outline below the spout, covered overall save the circular foot ring which encloses a nearly flat, recessed base, with a blue-green celadon glaze with variegated crackle, pooling thicker and emerald in the recesses and with a uniform lustre; fitted with a pointed circular cover moulded with a small attachment loop also glazed celadon
9 7/8in. (25.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

For similar ewers see Soontaek Choi-Bae, Seladon-Keramik der Koryo-Dynastie 918-1392/Celadon Wares of the Koryo Period 918-1392 (Köln: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, 1984), no. 30; Koyama Fujio, et al., eds., Chosen jodai, korai hen (Ancient Korea, Koryo volume), Sekai toji zenshu/Collection of World's Ceramics, vol. 13 (Tokyo: Zauho and Kawade shobo, 1961), no. 58.