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Small Goryeo Celadon Round Censer with Bamboo Design Relief
Goryeo Dynasty, 11th-12th c. AD, Korea
Height: 4 cm Diameter: 6.2 cm
A small stoneware jarlet with a surface design of joined strips of split bamboo in relief. The piece is covered with an ideally colored blue/green translucent celadon glaze, including the underfoot, which has three white spur marks. Although the original use was as a medicine or cosmetics jar, and likely had a ceramic lid, it was repurposed in late 19th or early 20th century Japan as a censer with the addition of a reticulated gilt bronze chrysanthemum form lid.
With inscribed wooden box and Bunkacho export permit.
Provenance:
Private Japanese Collection
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