A Slip-inlaid Buncheong Stoneware Cosmetic Box

JOSEON DYNASTY (15TH-16TH CENTURY)

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A Slip-inlaid Buncheong Stoneware Cosmetic Box
Joseon dynasty (15th-16th century)
The circular box and cover inlaid in white slip with bands of chrysanthemum florets accented by double lines and applied with a transparent glaze repeated on the interior; rims where the cover and lower box meet and base unglazed
3 1/16in. (7.6cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For another box, see G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period (London: Faber & Faber, 1968), no. 80. For a box in the collection of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, see The Art of the Korean Potter, exh. cat. (New York: Asia Society, 1968), no. 80; and Rhee Byung-chang, Richo toji Yi Ceramics, in Kankoku bijutsu shusen Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), no. 114.

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