1991.617: Octagonal Bottle with Short, Lightly Flaring Neck, and with Alternating Landscape and Floral Rondels

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1991.617

Title

Octagonal Bottle with Short, Lightly Flaring Neck, and with Alternating Landscape and Floral Rondels

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

late 17th-early 18th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Korea

Period

Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910

Culture

Korean

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/201154

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with mark reading "chi" ("earth") painted in underglaze cobalt blue on the base. From kilns in Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province, perhaps in Toma-ri.

Dimensions

H. 12.8 x Diam. 12 cm (5 1/16 x 4 3/4 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

1991.617

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 57, no. 129

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