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A buncheong ware wine bottle with iron-painted decoration Joseon dynasty, late 15th-early 16th century
18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
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A buncheong ware wine bottle with iron-painted decoration
Joseon dynasty, late 15th-early 16th century
Of pear form with a flared rim to the waisted neck and canted foot ring at the base, the dark-bodied clay painted with a white slip that is incised to form horizontal string bands around the neck and borders to a wide band of stylized leafy stems freely drawn in dark brown slip beneath a glaze of pale straw color, the unglazed foot pad and recessed base burnt a dark chocolate brown.
10 3/4in (27.3cm) high
Of pear form with a flared rim to the waisted neck and canted foot ring at the base, the dark-bodied clay painted with a white slip that is incised to form horizontal string bands around the neck and borders to a wide band of stylized leafy stems freely drawn in dark brown slip beneath a glaze of pale straw color, the unglazed foot pad and recessed base burnt a dark chocolate brown.
10 3/4in (27.3cm) high
Footnotes
The bottle is a fine representative of the iron-painted wares produced at the Hakbong-ri kilns in the Gyeryong Mountains of Chungcheong Province from the last quarter of the fifteenth to the first half of the sixteenth century. See Soyoung Lee and Jeon Seung-chang, Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011, pp. 58-60 and p. 24, cat. no. 13 (drum shaped bottle).
Bottles of similar form and decoration are published in Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum I: Antique Art, 1 Ceramics, Seoul, 1996, cat. no. 99, p. 111 (30.4cm high, as 15th-16th century); and in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, Vol. 2: National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Tokyo, 1982, cat. no. 184 (24.4cm high, as 16th century).