A Punch'ong Stoneware Bottle

CHOSON PERIOD (15TH CENTURY)

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A Punch'ong Stoneware Bottle
Choson Period (15th Century)
Of pear form on a high ring foot, inlaid with a wide frieze of scrolling bosang hwa and several butterflies in white slip which forms an even ground on one plane with the body, and with bands of fretwork, around the foot, a wide white band above the foot, and below successive bands of stylized, arching grasses, stiff leaves and parallel vertical lines engraved through the white slip at the neck; the vessel also decorated by a transparent glaze of pronounced green tinge
115/8in. (29.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

For related bottles see Masterpieces of Punchong Ware from the Ho-Am Art Museum: Looking for the Root of Korean Beauty, exh. cat. (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation, 1993), pl. 20; Rhee Byung-chang, Richo toji/Yi Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), pl. 23; G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Pottery & Porcelain of the Yi Period (London: Faber & Faber, 1968), no. 16A; Funsei saki ten/Punch'ong Ware of Choson Dynasty, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1996), pl. 16.

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