A vase-shaped bottle glazed in light tan, with a brushed-on floral design around the middle
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From a flat circular base, the lower third of the bottle curves outward, before tapering to a thin neck at the top third, which flares out to a low ridge around the circular opening at the top. Thin, gray-brown horizontal lines form margins of varying widths across the base, the middle, and the neck. The widest band, across the middle, features a design brushed on in dark lines and shapes, that are in places streaked with transparent rusty brown. In it, two curving stems criss cross and then curve downward, ending in three lobe-shaped leaves.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.592
Title
Pear-Shaped Bottle with Decoration of Two Ginseng Branches
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 15th to early 16th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
Period
Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
Culture
Korean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/201101

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on the white-slip ground. Made near Kongju, at the foot of Mount Kyeryong, South Ch'ungch'ŏng province.
Technique
Punch'ong
Dimensions
H. 28.7 x Diam. 15.5 cm (11 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gregory (1922-1988) and Maria C. Henderson (1923-2007), Medford, MA (by 1969-1988), inherited; by Maria C. Henderson, Medford, MA (1988-1991), partial gift and partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.592
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), p. 51, no. 104
  • Christian Boehm, Korean Celadon and Buncheong Ware in the Harvard Art Museums, Arts of Asia (Hong Kong, Autumn 2023), pp. 106-, pp. 118-120, fig. 31

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/09/2017 - 12/07/2017

Verification Level

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