Goryeo Celadon Yuhunping Vase with Floral Slip Decoration
Goryeo Dynasty - 12th-13th c., Korea
Height: 33cm
A stoneware pear-shaped bottle vase with elongated neck and flared mouth-rim. The exterior is decorated with four vertical panels, separated by deeply incised bands of three lines each. Each panel has finely impressed garlands of flowers accentuated with white slip for the petals and black for the vines. The exterior is covered with a finely crackled celadon glaze of ideal pale blue-green color, which continues over the foot-rim and is wiped around the underfoot. The foot is chipped in places, revealing a dark gray clay body that has fired to a light brown color where the glaze has been wiped away. There are small glaze crawls on the neck, a small kiln adhesion, and a hairline body crack on the body that has an old glue repair.
A piece of similar decoration and form from the collection of the Musee Guimet is published in “Oriental Ceramics; The World’s Great Collections” Kodansha, Tokyo 1981. Vol. 7. pl. 98
In a Japanese box with old paper label.
Provenance:
Private Japanese Collection
