Lot 39
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A PUNCH'ONG BOWL

Details
A PUNCH'ONG BOWL
CHOSON DYNASTY (15TH-16TH CENTURY)

Of circular shape resting on a small, high ring foot with nearly flat well and rounded sides, decorated in sgraffito style with stylized peonies brushed in white slip centering a wide roundel also brushed with white slip, and with triple rings below the rim and double rings encircling the cavetto, the underside of the bowl incised with concentric rings starting around the foot and rising to the rim and brushed sparingly with white slip contrasting with the grey body of the vessel, covered overall with a green-tinged clear glaze with dense crackle- 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) diameter
Literature
Akaboshi Goro and Heihachiro Nakamura Five Centuries of korean Ceramics--Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (Weatherhill, Tankosha: New York, Tokyo & Kyoto, 1975) no. 82.

Lot Essay

For a bowl from the Duksoo Palace Museum of Fine Arts with a similar leaf pattern in the interior see G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period (London, 1968), no. 36a; a bottle with similarly etched plant design, though not peony, in the collection of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, see Exhibition of Oriental Ceramics, (Osaka, 1982), no. 101 and Byung-chang Rhee, Masterpieces of Korean Art- Yi Ceramics (Tokyo, 1978), pl. 24; a shallow bowl with similar ringed, round center and leaf design see Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection Memorial Exhibition (Feb. 13-March30, 1952), no. 665