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A SLIP-DECORATED PUNCH'ONG BOTTLE
CHOSON DYNASTY (15TH CENTURY)
The ovoid bottle with flattenned front and back sides rising from a high ring foot to the tapered, cylindrical neck and flared, flat mouth and applied at the rounded sides with two pierced, angled handles, decorated in white slip on the flattenned sides with a tapered medallion of a single flower surrounded by chrysanthemum florets set on a field of 'rope curtain' intersected by triple-bands, the neck decorated by a collar of further chrysantheumum florets between triple lines, the whole covered by a celadon-tinged glaze which runs in a thick stream from the neck to the shoulder and face of one of the flattened sides--9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high
CHOSON DYNASTY (15TH CENTURY)
The ovoid bottle with flattenned front and back sides rising from a high ring foot to the tapered, cylindrical neck and flared, flat mouth and applied at the rounded sides with two pierced, angled handles, decorated in white slip on the flattenned sides with a tapered medallion of a single flower surrounded by chrysanthemum florets set on a field of 'rope curtain' intersected by triple-bands, the neck decorated by a collar of further chrysantheumum florets between triple lines, the whole covered by a celadon-tinged glaze which runs in a thick stream from the neck to the shoulder and face of one of the flattened sides--9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high