A CELADON BOTTLE

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A CELADON BOTTLE
KORYO DYNASTY (12TH CENTURY)

Of pear form resting on a high foot and rising to the slender, tapered neck which ends at the flared mouth, covered overall by an even celadon glaze with only random, sparse crackle--8¾in. (22.3cm.) high, rim chip restored

Lot Essay

For another pear-form celadon bottle see Korai hishoku seiji [Jade Colour Celadon, the first half of the 12th Century, Koryo Dynasty] (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1987), no. 1