A Double-Gourd Form Stoneware Bottle

KORYO DYNASTY (12TH CENTURY)

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A Double-Gourd Form Stoneware Bottle
Koryo Dynasty (12th century)
Incised with concentric lines in three places on the lower body and around the pinched waist separating the two gourd sections, traces of natural ash-glaze, shallow recessed base unglazed, small hole on the shoulder of lower body, possibly for the insertion of a spout
16 3/8in. (41.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other bottles see Masterpieces from Ewha Womans University Museum, exh. cat. (Seoul: Ewha Womans University Museum, 1999), pl. 49; Koryo Period Ceramics and Earthenwares, Tiles in Lee Hong-Kun Collection, National Museum of Korea (Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1983), no. 540; Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Henderson (Ohio State University: Divisions Art Gallery, 1969), no. 48.

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