Current Location: Gallery 29 - Korean Gallery
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Unknown
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Cup and stand with chrysanthemum designs. Stoneware, moulded, carved and incised, and celadon-glazed. Both pieces are of ten-petalled flower shape characteristic of the Koryo period, and both were formed by a mould. The cup is decorated with an incised chrysanthemum spray in each lobe both inside and outside as well as in the centre, and with a classic-scroll border at the outer rim. The stand is decorated with an incised chrysanthemum spray in the recessed support, incised fish and waves in the sunken area around it, and further incised chrysanthemum sprays on the broad everted rim. The foot is incised with foliate sprays. The pale bluish-green glaze, somewhat greener on the cup, has a fine dense crackle, and has partly changed colour in the firing. Both pieces have quartzite spur-marks inside the foot.
Notes
History note: Unknown before donor
Legal notes
Gompertz Gift
Place(s) associated
-
Puan-gun
⪼ North Cholla province
⪼ Korea
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1984)
by
Gompertz, G. St. G. M., Mr and Mrs
Dating
12th Century
Koryo Dynasty
Circa
1100
-
1150
Note
Probably Yuch'on-ri ware.
Similar sets of cup and stand were made of bronze, and are also known in qingbai ware from Jingdezhen in China. This example may have been produced by the kilns at Yuch'on-ri, Puan, where similar examples have been found.
Components of the work
Glaze
composed of
celadon glaze
Cup And Stand
composed of
stoneware
Stand Overall
Diameter 14.2 cm
Cup Foot
Diameter 3.5 cm
Cup Rim
Diameter 7.3 cm
Stand Foot
Diameter 7.8 cm
Stand
Height 4.7 cm
Cup
Height 6.1 cm
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.58 & A-1984
Primary reference Number: 16130
Old object number: 41
Box number: 41
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 11 August 2016
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
