COREE, EPOQUE KORYO, XIIIEME SIECLE

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VERSEUSE COUVERTE EN GRES CELADON
COREE, EPOQUE KORYO, XIIIEME SIECLE
En forme de melon, la panse lobée, à décor incrusté sous couverte noir et blanc d'une alternance de chrysanthèmes et lotus, encadrés par deux frises de pétales, l'anse rehaussée d'une tige, la naissance du bec moulée ; restauration à l'or sur le bec, couvercle postérieur
Hauteur: 9,3 cm.(3¾ in.)

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AN INLAID CELADON STONEWARE MELON FORM EWER AND COVER
KOREA, KORYO PERIOD, 13TH CENTURY
Cover replaced

Lot Essay

These kind of celadon-glazed melon form ewers were adapted from models stemming from China and very popular during the Song dynasty. Similar examples are illustrated in G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Celadon and Other Wares of the Koryo Period, London 1963, no. 19, Koryo period Ceramics and Earthenwares, Tiles in Lee Hong-Kun Collection, National Museum of Korea, Seoul 1983, no.135 and 5,000 Years of Korean Art, National Museum of Korea, 1979, p.104.

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