Lot 4
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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN
A MALLET-FORM CELADON BOTTLE

Details
A MALLET-FORM CELADON BOTTLE
koryo dynasty (11th-12th century)

Of fulling-block form, with cylindrical lower body, slanted shoulder, tall cylindrical neck and wide, flat lip encircling the cylindrical mouth, covered overall by an even, smooth and clear green celadon glaze with little crackle, sparse large crackle on one of the lower sides and in one place on the shoulder and lip, the glaze slightly thicker and emerald in places on the lip, at the base of the neck and above the flat, glazed base--9 1/8in. (23.1cm.) high, lip broken and reattached, two small surface chips, clay adhesion and glaze pull on one lower side

Lot Essay

For other mallet-form bottles see Korai seiji eno izinai/An Introduction to Koryo Celadon (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1992), pl. 150; Korai hishoku seiji/Jade Colour Celadon, the first half of the 12th Century, Koryo Dynasty (ibid, 1987), no. 3, the same bottle; Exhibition of Oriental Ceramics (ibid, 1982), no. 54, the same bottle; Ikutaro Itoh, Jonathan Best, Yutaka Mino, The Radiance of Jade and the Clarity of Water--Korean Ceramics from the Ataka Collection (Chicago and New York: The Art Institute and Hudson Hills Press, 1991), pl. 7, the same bottle; Gan Song Mun Wha/Ceramics IV Celadon (Seoul: The Center for the Study of Korean Arts, 1986), pl. 6; G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Celadon and Other Wares of the Koryo Period (London: Faber and Faber, 1963), no. 4

Another mallet-form celadon bottle was sold in these Rooms, April 27, 1994, lot 5.