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A buncheong deep dish with impressed floral decoration Joseon dynasty, mid-15th century
18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$10,000 - US$15,000
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Senior Vice President, US Head, Asian Art Group
A buncheong deep dish with impressed floral decoration
Joseon dynasty, mid-15th century
Carefully potted with a tall, canted foot that supports a wide curving well stamped with tiny florets, densely overlapped and bordered by bands of grasses, lotus petals and stylized bats, all inlaid in white slip against the gray clay ground and repeating on the exterior walls, the exterior foot also impressed with a band of circles and a shiny glaze of pale straw hue applied to all surfaces except the foot pad, the incised Chinese character jung visible beneath the glaze covering the recessed base
8 5/8in (22cm) diameter
2 5/8 (6.8cm) high
Carefully potted with a tall, canted foot that supports a wide curving well stamped with tiny florets, densely overlapped and bordered by bands of grasses, lotus petals and stylized bats, all inlaid in white slip against the gray clay ground and repeating on the exterior walls, the exterior foot also impressed with a band of circles and a shiny glaze of pale straw hue applied to all surfaces except the foot pad, the incised Chinese character jung visible beneath the glaze covering the recessed base
8 5/8in (22cm) diameter
2 5/8 (6.8cm) high
Footnotes
The use of chrysanthemum-shaped stamps forming a dense frieze on the surface of the clay is characteristic of Buncheong ware produced during the mid-fifteenth century: see See Soyoung Lee and Jeon Seung-chang, Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011, cat. nos. 5 & 6 (bowls), pp. 12-13, and cat. no. 44, p. 76 (drum-shaped bottle).
The drum shaped bottle (cat. no. 44 above) appears to be the same bottle that was sold in Christie's New York, Korean Works of Art sale 7900, 27 April, 1994, as lot 33. See also the inlaid bowl, lot 30, sold in the same sale: though of cupped form, the bowl has the tall foot with impressed rings, bands of chrysanthemum florets and waving grass beneath a "glaze of high sheen" similar to this deep dish. The curious band of what seem to be abstracted bats on this dish appears in another deep dish with a practically identical program of inlay illustrated in Hanguk Kogo Charyo Jipsung, Vol. 7: Joseon Kochok Tobo, 1995, section 15 (Joseon Ceramics, ), p. 2162, no. 6181.