A Punch'ong Stoneware Bottle

CHOSON PERIOD (15TH-16TH CENTURY)

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A Punch'ong Stoneware Bottle
Choson period (15th-16th century)
Modelled in the form of a rice bale set on two flared rectangular supports and moulded with a cylindrical neck ending in a wide, flared mouth, the bottle decorated on each of the circular ends with incised concentric circles and brushed with white slip, the long sides also decorated in underglaze-iron over the slip with curving vines, the whole covered by a transparent glaze of high lustre
7 3/8in. (18.8cm.) high; 8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) long

Lot Essay

For other vessels see Punch'ong Sagi Myungpumjeun Ho-Am Misulgan Sojang--Hankukmi Eui Wonhyung Eul Chaja/Masterpieces of Punchong Ware from the Hoam Art Museum--Looking for the Root of Korean Beauty, exh. cat. (Seoul: Ho-Am Art Museum, 1993), pls. 135-7; Rhee Byung-chang, Richo toji/Yi Ceramics in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), pls. 88, 92.

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