A LARGE CELADON MAEBYONG

THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN

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A LARGE CELADON MAEBYONG
koryo dynasty (12th century)

With evenly rounded shoulders above the tapered body, cup-form mouth and flat foot enclosing a recessed base, incised below the neck with three triangular, yo'i-shaped cloud clusters linked by slender double-lines and incised on the body below the shoulders on three sides with long stalks of flowering lotus and incised above a single line encircling the foot with three additional stands of yo'i placed between the lotus sprays; covered by a celadon glaze pooling emerald in the mouth and in the incised lines and with high sheen and dense crackle, recessed base also glazed, foot unglazed--13 3/8in. (33.8cm.) high

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For similar maebyong see Soontaek Choi-Bae, Seladon Keramic der Koryo-Dynastie 918-1392/Celadon Wares of the Koryo Period 918-1392 (Köln: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, 1984), cover ill. and no. 15; Korai meipin ten/Exhibition of Mei-Ping Vase Koryo Dynasty, Korea (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1985), no. 2; Korai seiji eno izinai/An Introduction to Koryo Celadon (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1992), pl. 21