Bowl: C.100-1934

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unknown (Possibly)

Entities

• Bowl

Categories

• Stoneware
• Celadon

Description

Bowl with chrysanthemum designs. Stoneware, thrown, inlaid with black and white slip and celadon-glazed. This deep conical bowl has a small foot with low footring. The inside is inlaid in black and white slip with a classic- scroll border round the rim and four sprays of chrysanthemum round the sides. On the outside three similar sprays are inlaid, while the rest remains plain. The pale bluish-green jade-like glaze is evenly applied and glossy. There are three quartzite spur-marks on the footring. The bowl is slightly warped and the rim has been repaired in gold lacquer.

Notes

History note: Formerly in the collection of Sir Frank William Brangwyn R.A.

Legal notes

Bought with the Glaisher Fund

Place(s) associated

• Puan-gun ⪼ North Cholla province ⪼ Korea
• Kangjin-gun ⪼ South Cholla province ⪼ Korea

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1934) by Brangwyn Collection

Dating

Koryo Dynasty
12th Century
Circa 1150 CE - 1200 CE

Note

Probably Sadang-ri or Yuch'on-ri ware.

This type of bowl was used for tea. It was probably made around the 1150s when the change from incised to inlaid designs was taking place; compare a related bowl in the Seoul National Museum combining both techniques, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.18, 1978, pls.164 and 165.