IDENTIFIERS
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id:	16190
accession number:	C.36-1984

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 25 February 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Tripod vessel with dragon design. Stoneware, moulded, with parts attached, and celadon-glazed. The deep almost cylindrical body of this piece ends in a thick everted rim with two small upright handles, and rests on three short legs shaped as paws. The body is divided vertically into three parts, each of which is decorated slightly differently with a sinuous dragon chasing a pearl among waves, in fine relief, crisply and powerfully executed. Around the base is a band of key-fret.  The thick and heavy body is of fine clay and is evenly covered with a glossy glaze of pale bluish-green jade colour. The glaze has been wiped from the base of the feet, which were resting on fire-clay supports during firing.
title:	tripod vessel

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Reputedly presented by Ito Hirobumi, Resident General of Korea, to Prince Ogasawara, who gave it to his god son, Prince Takamatsu, brother of Emperor Hirohito; thereafter in the collection of Hirota Matsushige, and eventually acquired from Kochukyo


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Gompertz Collection
creditline: Gompertz Gift

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16190


SUBJECTS
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dragon
dragon



CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: celadon

DATING
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creation date:	1150 - 1200
creation date earliest:	1150
creation date latest:	1200
culture:	12th Century
culture:	Koryo Dynasty

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Exhibition marking the opening of the Korean Gallery
CITATIONS
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The Kingfisher Celadon of Koryo
Sekai Toji Zenshu
Korean Celadon and Other Wares of the Koryo Period
Masterpieces of Korean Art
La Collection Gompertz au Musée Fitzwilliam de Louvre de Cambridge
Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue
Korai
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