A Very Fine Early Korean Carved Koryo Greenish Celadon Bottle Vase

Description

A Very Fine Early Korean
Carved Greenish Celadon Bottle Vase
Koryo dynasty, 11
th
-12
th
century
The bottle is a baluster shape of body and cup-mouth shape, its sides tapering to
flat base with no glaze, knife-cut with vertical facets below
interlocking loops encircling the shoulders, around the shoulder carved with lotus
leafy foliage, covered overall in greenish celadon glaze.
Condition: fine condition with some kiln-grit encrustation to the base.
Measurements; 25cm x 14,6cm (9 7/8” x 5 ¾”).
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An almost identical celadon bottle with an incised lotus petal
design illustrated in
Korean Art Collection in the Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., ,2006,
page 45, lot #035