A Large Buncheong Stoneware Bottle

JOSEON DYNASTY (15TH-16TH CENTURY)

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A Large Buncheong Stoneware Bottle
Joseon dynasty (15th-16th century)
Of pear form with cylindrical neck ending in a wide, flaring rim with bands of white-slip decoration, beginning above the foot with incised overlapping lotus leaves filled with white slip between line borders and a wide panel of "rope curtain" rising to successive bands of lappets, chrysanthemum florets and stylized leaf bands below triple lines at the rim, the mouth interior ornamented with a white-slip band of lines and leaves, the bottle finished with a transparent glaze with greenish hue
11 5/8in. (29.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a related bottle in the collection of the National Museum of Korea, see Handbook of the National Museum of Korea (Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1996), p. 190; Hanguk misul yicheunnyeun 2000 Years of Korean Arts, exh. cat. (Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1973), no. 305; see also the bottle in the collection of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Mishima koyomide ten Exhibition of Punch'ong Wares, Koyomide Style, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1990), no. 41.

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