A small gilt-bronze container

UNIFIED SILLA-GORYEO DYNASTY (10TH CENTURY)

Details

A small gilt-bronze container
Unified Silla-Goryeo dynasty (10th century)
The compressed globular jar set on a ring foot, the body richly gilded and designed with raised bands around the center, the lid in the form of a two-tiered pagoda
3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) high
With lacquered wood box affixed with paper label inscribed Chokai Seiji gahaku kyuzo (collection of the painter, Chokai Seiji) kondo gosu (gilt bronze container) and a label with gold inscription Heian jidai kondo gosu (Heian-period gilt-bronze container)

Provenance

Chokai Seiji (1902-1972)

Lot Essay

There is a nearly identical container in the Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Nara, catalogued as Korean. See Yamato Bunkakan shozohin zuhan mokuroku, vol. 5. / The collection catalogue of the Museum Yamato Bunkakan, vol. 5. (Nara: Museum Yamato Bunkakan, 1992), no. 85.

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