An Inlaid Celadon Stoneware Bowl

KORYO DYNASTY (13TH CENTURY)

Details

An Inlaid Celadon Stoneware Bowl
Koryo Dynasty (13th century)
Of conical form rising evenly from a raised ring foot, inlaid on the interior in white and black slip with six flying cranes set on a ground of clouds in the shapes of small starbursts, the deep cavetto inlaid in white slip with a large chrysanthemum medallion and the interior rim in white slip with a narrow band of foliage; the exterior of the bowl inlaid in white slip with black-slip details with a wide band of floral arabesques swirling around four chrysanthemum medallions below a band of further cranes and clouds and inlaid above the foot with a collar of upright and pointed leaves; the bowl covered overall with a bright celadon glaze of high lustre
6¾in. (17.3cm.) diameter; 2 7/8in. (7.5cm.) high

Exhibited

Tokyo Bijutsu Club, with Nihon toji kyokai (Japan Ceramic Society), "Shuki taikai: Korai toji meihin ten" (The Society's autumn exhibition: Masterpieces of Koryo ceramics), 1953.10.30--31 (exhibit no. 81)

Lot Essay

For a very similar bowl from the Ataka Collection in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, see Rhee Byung-chang, Korai toji/Koryo Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), no. 227. For round bowls with similar decoration see Catalogue of Selected Masterpieces of the Song-Am Fine Art Museum (Seoul: Song-Am Cultural Foundation, 1989), pl. 87; Koryo bijutsukan meisaku zuroku/Koryo Museum of Art Collection 2003 (Kyoto: Koryo Museum of Art, 2003).

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