Korean celadon-glazed bowl with cranes and clouds

An image of Bowl with cranes and clouds. Unknown, pottery probably, South Cholla province, Kangjin-gun, Sadang-ri kilns. This bowl is of conical shape with a concave base. On the outside it is plain, while the inside is carved in low relief with six motifs of clouds and cranes, and a chrysanthemum floret in the centre. The pale bluish-green glaze is glossy and crackled. The base shows three quartzite spur-marks. Stoneware, thrown, carved and celadon-glazed, height, whole, 6.1 cm, diameter, rim, 16.0 cm, diameter, foot, 4.5 cm, circa 1100-1200. Koryo Dynasty. Production Note: This kind of bowl was used for tea. Low-relief motifs of this kind are frequently seen on pieces from the latter part of the twelfth century. This piece is important as it shows that the inlaid crane-and-cloud motif developed from carved low-relief motifs at this time.

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Bowl with cranes and clouds. Unknown, pottery probably, South Cholla province, Kangjin-gun, Sadang-ri kilns. This bowl is of conical shape with a concave base. On the outside it is plain, while the inside is carved in low relief with six motifs of clouds and cranes, and a chrysanthemum floret in the centre. The pale bluish-green glaze is glossy and crackled. The base shows three quartzite spur-marks. Stoneware, thrown, carved and celadon-glazed, height, whole, 6.1 cm, diameter, rim, 16.0 cm, diameter, foot, 4.5 cm, circa 1100-1200. Koryo Dynasty. Production Note: This kind of bowl was used for tea. Low-relief motifs of this kind are frequently seen on pieces from the latter part of the twelfth century. This piece is important as it shows that the inlaid crane-and-cloud motif developed from carved low-relief motifs at this time.

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Accession Number: C.26-1927
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 914 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 283.68kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2013:04:23 02:03:46

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