Lot 30
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A PUNCH'ONG EWER

Details
A PUNCH'ONG EWER
CHOSON DYNASTY (15TH CENTURY)

Of globular form resting on a thick ring foot with cylindrical neck ending in a flared and rolled lip and moulded fancifully with a dragon head supported by the cylindrical spout and with a curved handle simulating the body of the dragon, the body of the vessel decorated with a wide band of stamped 'rope curtain' in white slip below a narrower band of scrollwork inlaid in white slip, the 'scales' of the dragon's spine, the handle, and the details of the dragon's head and neck also picked out in white slip, covered overall with a crackled, light green celadon glaze- 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) high, one horn of dragon restored, minute surface chip

Lot Essay

For another animal-head and handle ewer with stamped and inlaid rope-curtain pattern see Byung-chang Rhee, ed., Masterpieces of Korean Art- Yi Ceramics (Tokyo, 1978), fig. 116 and Exhibition of Punch'ong Wares, Kiyomide Style, Korea (Osaka, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1990), fig. 47