AN IMPRESSED CELADON BOWL

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AN IMPRESSED CELADON BOWL
koryo dynasty (12th century)

Of conical form rising to a wide, circular rim from a short ring foot, impressed in the interior with a single stylized peony rosette in a sunken reserve surrounded by an impressed design of peony blossoms and scrolling foliage below a single incised line, the details of the foliage rendered by incised hairlines, the exterior smooth and the whole covered by a blue-green celadon glaze of even lustre and with sparse crackle--6¼in. (15.9cm.) diameter, 1¾in. (4.6cm.) high, two hairline cracks to rim, small chip to underside of rim

拍品專文

For a virtually identical impressed bowl see Shugyoku no Korai toji shohin/Gems of Koryo Ceramic Ware (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1996), pl. 45; Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Koryo Ceramics (Tokyo: privately published, 1978), pl. 107

For a similar impressed bowl see Korai hishoku seiji/Jade Colour Celadon, the first half of the 12th Century, Koryo Dynasty (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1987), no. 35 and cover illustration