A large round green-gray jar decorated with dark flowing lines in a floral pattern
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

From its flat circular base, the jar widens gradually up until the top third. There, it quickly curves back inward toward the center where a wide opening is ringed by a ridged cuff. With subtle horizontal striations across its surface, it is glazed in a muted green-gray, with decorative lines in dark olive. The top third shows a border featuring curving a geometric design. In a broad band across most of the side, a floral design of leaves and stems in flowing lines is set off by dark spaces, and a more narrow border at the bottom features a repeating leaf shape.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.203
Title
Jar with Stylized Floral Decor
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
Period
Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
Culture
Korean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/209703

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration carved and incised through the white-slip ground
Technique
Punch'ong
Dimensions
H. 28.6 x Diam. 20.2 cm (11 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hervey E. Wetzel (1988-1918), Boston, MA (by 1919), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Hervey E. Wetzel
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.203
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert P. Griffing, Jr., The Art of the Korean Potter; Silla, Koryô, Yi, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1968), p. 105, no. 85; p. 127, no. 85
  • Christian Boehm, Korean Celadon and Buncheong Ware in the Harvard Art Museums, Arts of Asia (Hong Kong, Autumn 2023), pp. 106-, pp. 117-119, fig. 29

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/09/2017 - 12/07/2017

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