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Bottle with Incised and Sgraffito Fish Design

분청사기 조화 물고기무늬 병 (粉靑沙器彫花蓮魚文甁)

1400s–1500s

Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392–1910)
Medium
stoneware with incised design (Buncheong ware)
Measurements
Outer diameter: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); Overall: 30.6 cm (12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1962.153
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Did You Know?

The fish depicted here seems to be a small yellow croaker, abundant off the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula.

Description

This whimsical bottle is classified as Buncheong 분청 (literally, powdered green). Flourishing during the 1400s–1500s, Buncheong indicates pottery with iron-rich clay decorated with white slip. After firing, the color of the clay body usually became greenish-gray due to its high iron content. Korean artists tried to emulate the white porcelain wares of the Chinese Ming period, although the result was not the same. On the surface coated with white slip, the image of a smiling fish is carved in bold lines, a technique distinctive to Jeolla province, a southwest region of the Korean peninsula.
Beige-colored, stoneware bottle with a tear-drop shape narrowing into a thin neck and featuring brown, incised deigns, a stylized fish on the body. More incised sparse, geometric patterns wrap around the neck, and the vase switches to a brown-green color at the very base. Subtle, horizontal, grey striations extend up the bottle.

Bottle with Incised and Sgraffito Fish Design

1400s–1500s

Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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