A CELADON FOLIATE BOWL

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A CELADON FOLIATE BOWL
KORYO DYNASTY (12TH CENTURY)

The delicate, petal-form bowl with six lobes resting on a ring foot with recessed base which is echoed in the slightly domed well of the bowl, carved in the interior with a peony spray with a large, multi-petalled flower, curving stem and branches and arching leaves, all below a single incised line, covered overall in a sea-green celadon glaze with random crackle- 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm.) diameter, broken and reglued

Lot Essay

For a nearly identical celadon bowl with moulded peony design in the collection of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka see Museum cat. Jade Colour Celadon, the First Half of the 12th Century, Koryo Dynasty (Osaka, 1987), fig. 37 and in Byung-chang Rhee, ed., Masterpieces of Korean Art- Koryo Ceramics (Tokyo, 1978), pl. 106; for other moulded celadon bowls see W. B. Honey, Corean Pottery (London, 1952), figs. 46,47