1991.575: 'Maebyŏng' Bottle with Willow Decor
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.575
- Title
- 'Maebyŏng' Bottle with Willow Decor
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Koryŏ or Chosŏn dynasty, late 14th-early 15th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
- Culture
- Korean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201083
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with dark (oxidized) celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Yangp'yŏng, Kyŏnggi province, in 1962.
- Technique
- Celadon
- Dimensions
- H. 32.3 x Diam. 17.1 cm (12 11/16 x 6 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
- 1991.575
- 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. 45, no. 87
Verification Level
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