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A celadon glazed bamboo ewer and cover Goryeo dynasty, 12th century
18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$50,000 - US$70,000
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A celadon glazed bamboo ewer and cover
Goryeo dynasty, 12th century
The pear-shaped ewer formed with convex ribs imitating bamboo stalks and incised with tiny leaves sprouting at each joint, the curving spout similarly molded but the thick strap handle more smoothly finished with an indented center and topped by a clay coil loop for attachment to a similar one on the domed cover molded with slightly raised ribs; the densely crazed glaze on both sections displaying a pale gray-green hue, pooling to a richer blue-green in some crevices, but the foot pad and the edges of the slightly recessed base on the ewer, as well as the outside edge of the collar on the cover, burnt a warm cinnamon brown where the clay fabric is exposed
9in (22.8cm) height overall
The pear-shaped ewer formed with convex ribs imitating bamboo stalks and incised with tiny leaves sprouting at each joint, the curving spout similarly molded but the thick strap handle more smoothly finished with an indented center and topped by a clay coil loop for attachment to a similar one on the domed cover molded with slightly raised ribs; the densely crazed glaze on both sections displaying a pale gray-green hue, pooling to a richer blue-green in some crevices, but the foot pad and the edges of the slightly recessed base on the ewer, as well as the outside edge of the collar on the cover, burnt a warm cinnamon brown where the clay fabric is exposed
9in (22.8cm) height overall
Footnotes
A bamboo-decorated ewer of the same shape is this lot and double gourd-shaped ewer with stand of similar design are published in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, Vol. 2: National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Tokyo, 1982, cat. nos. 43 and 44 (each as first half, 12th century). See also the bottle of elongated pear form with similar bamboo-stalk decoration in Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum: I Antique Art, 1 Ceramics, Seoul, 1996, cat. no. 13, p. 29 (as 12th century).