Lot Essay
For a similar bottle, see Rhee Byung-chang, Korai toji Koryo Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), no. 136.
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
An Inlaid Celadon Stoneware Bottle
GORYEO DYNASTY (13TH CENTURY)
Details
An Inlaid Celadon Stoneware Bottle
Goryeo dynasty (13th century)
Of pear form with tall, cylindrical neck ending in a rolled lip, inlaid in slip on the lower body with three stands of chrysanthemums, each with three blossoms and buds inlaid in white slip and the stems and leaves inlaid in iron slip, all below an inlaid white-slip collar of the heart-shaped heads of auspicious fungus, bullocho; the vessel additionally decorated with a bright celadon glaze, emerald in places and with variegated craquelure; inset shallow base unglazed and with five spur marks
12 3/8in. (31.3cm.) high
Goryeo dynasty (13th century)
Of pear form with tall, cylindrical neck ending in a rolled lip, inlaid in slip on the lower body with three stands of chrysanthemums, each with three blossoms and buds inlaid in white slip and the stems and leaves inlaid in iron slip, all below an inlaid white-slip collar of the heart-shaped heads of auspicious fungus, bullocho; the vessel additionally decorated with a bright celadon glaze, emerald in places and with variegated craquelure; inset shallow base unglazed and with five spur marks
12 3/8in. (31.3cm.) high
Provenance
Warren E. Cox & Associates, Inc., New York, November 1965
Arthur M. Sackler Collections
Else Sackler Collection, and thence by descent within the family
Arthur M. Sackler Collections
Else Sackler Collection, and thence by descent within the family
Exhibited
Columbia University, New York City, "Ceramics and Bronzes of Korea from the Sackler Collections," December 1965