A RARE PUNCH'ONG BOTTLE

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A RARE PUNCH'ONG BOTTLE
CHOSON DYNASTY (15TH-16TH CENTURY)

The pear-shaped stoneware body set on a slightly flaring. raised and recessed ring foot, with cylindrical neck rising to an everted rim and decorated in thickly applied white slip incised and reverse-inlaid to reveal the darker body below, the mid-section with a broad band depicting swimming fish, the scales indicated by combed incising, and flowering, five petalled lotus, above a band of stylized lotus-leaf pattern around the base and below three narrower bands around the neck of 'rope-curtain', flower-head and fish scale patterns beneath three parallel lines and a grass pattern around the interior of the rim. Covered with a pale, crackled celadon glaze pooling in the recesses-- 12in. (30.5cm.) high, misfired on the reverse, spout mishapen
出版
Rhee, Byung-chang, Yi Ceramics in Masterpieces of Korean Art, Vol. 3 (Tokyo, 1978), pl. 32, p. 30
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Richo toji 500 nen no bi: Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (Osaka: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1987), pl. 49, p. 41

With the advent of punch'ong (literally "powder green")--a greyish stoneware brushed with white slip--a robust new era of ceramic design was ushered in by the early Choson potters. Bold and uncompromising this pear shaped bottle is decorated with a continuos band of fish swimming among flowering lotus, a common motif in Choson ceramics and here rendered in a calm but humorous manner. The exhuberent use of a variety of different decorative techniques indicate the Choson potter's preference for spontaneous artistic effects which have been greatly admired not only in Korea but also in Japan and the West in this century.

Decoration characterized by sgraffito and brushed slip is associated with the kilns of Cholla province in the southwest. Here the underglaze white slip is so thickly applied that it results in an effect that resembles kohiki as it is described in Japan. It is typical of Choson stoneware that the coarse clay body is heavily potted, the white slip roughly brushed over the surface, and the glaze is thin and transparent, with a faint greenish caste.