A RARE IRON SLIP-COATED, INLAID WHITE SLIP-DECORATED AND CELADON-GLAZED MAEBYONG

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A RARE IRON SLIP-COATED, INLAID WHITE SLIP-DECORATED AND CELADON-GLAZED MAEBYONG
koryo dynasty (12th century)

Of well-proportioned maebyong form with high, rounded shoulders below the short neck and cup-form mouth and with tapered body rising from the flat foot enclosing the shallow, recessed base, decorated on two opposite sides with a large flower spray applied in white slip, the body coated with brown slip into which are scraped the shallow silhouettes of the flowers which are then applied with white slip, the vessel then covered by a thin celadon glaze, more concentrated in places and running in several rivluets down one side and in two loop-like lines at the neck, foot and recessed base unglazed--11in. (28cm.) high

Lot Essay

Another maebyong of this type was sold in these Rooms, October 31, 1996, lot 19

For published examples see Chosen jidai (Ancient Korea, Koryo), Sekai toji zenshu/Collection of world's ceramics, vol. 13, ed. Koyama Fujio (Tokyo: Zauho and Kawade shobo, 1961), pl. 19, nos. 132-33, figs. 203-7; Koryo Period Ceramics and Earthenwares, Tiles in Lee Hong-Kun Collection (Seoul: National Museum, 1983), nos. 395-96; Korai seiji e no izanai/An Introduction to Koryo Celadon (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1992), pls. 134-38; Korai bijutsukan kaikan kinen zuroku/Illustrated catalogue of the inaugural exhibition, Koryo Museum of Art, (Kyoto: Koryo Museum of Art, 1988), no. 9; Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art--Koryo Ceramics (Tokyo: privately published, 1978), pls. 304-7, nos. 309-14; Choi Sunu, Chungja, Hanguki ui mi (Korean beauty), vol. 4 (Seoul: Joong-ang Ilbosa, 1981), pls. 176-80