A CARVED, INCISED AND INLAID CELADON EWER

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A CARVED, INCISED AND INLAID CELADON EWER
KORYO DYNASTY (LATE 12TH-EARLY 13TH CENTURY)

The globular, melon-form ewer set on a ring foot and moulded with a short S-shaped spout, high cylindrical mouth and looped handle, decorated on the surface with two circular medallions containing single sprays of flowering and budding peony in inlaid black and white slip, set against an incised ground of scrolling leaf forms, below a collar of overlapping petals, covered overall with a light green celadon glaze pooling to crystalline emerald green and with variegated crackle, six spur marks on the base- 5 1/4in. (13.5cm.) high, 8 1/2in. (21.6cm.) diameter, handle restored, minute chip to rim

拍品专文

For a melon-shaped ewer subdivided into eight segments and decorated with inlaid willow-like flower forms, but with identical mouth and shoulder decoration see Itoh Ikutaro and Yutaka Mino, The Radiance of Jade and the Clarity of Water--Korean Ceramics from the Ataka Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1992), no. 19, p. 55. The mouth is tall and straight and there was a fanciful cover, now lost. The combination of incised and inlaid decoration is very rare. The design harmonizes beautifully with the simple shape of the vessel. For a ewer with nearly identical inlaid peony medallions see The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol. II, National Museum of Korea, Seoul (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1982), no. 83