A CELADON MELON-FORM EWER

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A CELADON MELON-FORM EWER
koryo dynasty (12th century)

Moulded with ten lobes, curved spout and curved handle incised with two line-channels and a ring attachment, the flat top of the vessel surrounding the mouth incised with a collar of ten petals above a larger incised collar of overlapping petals surrounding the shoulders, also incised on each of the vertical lobes with a slender lotus spray above a band of stiff leaves which encircles the foot, covered by a rich blue-green celadon glaze pooling emerald in the recesses and with dense crackle, foot unglazed, shallow recessed foot glazed--8½in. (21.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other ewers see Korai hishoku seiji/Jade Colour Celadon, the first half of the 12th Century, Koryo Dynasty (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1987), no. 12; G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Celadon and Other Wares of the Koryo Peroid (London: Faber and Faber, 1963), no. 19; Koryo Period Ceramics and Earthenwares, Tiles in Lee Hong-Kun Collection (Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1983), no. 135; Korai seiji e no izanai/An Introduction to Koryo Celadon (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1992), pl. 29