AN INCISED CELADON JAR WITH FOUR HANDLES

THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN

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AN INCISED CELADON JAR WITH FOUR HANDLES
koryo dynasty (12th century)

Of well-proportioned maebyong form resting on a short foot and recessed base with wide mouth and four floret-and-loop handles applied at the shoulder, now restored, incised on four sides with a large lotus spray, incised below the mouth with a collar of yo'i-heads and above the foot with a narrow band of fretwork, covered by a rich green celadon glaze with high lustre, emerald flushes and sparse long crackle--9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) high, handles and neck restored

Lot Essay

For other jars see G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Korean Celadon and Other Wares of the Koryo Period (London: Faber and Faber, 1963), no. 10, Freer Gallery of Art; W. B. Honey, Corean Pottery (London: Faber and Faber, 1952), no. 34; Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation, 1982), pl. 11