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Dish with Incised Scroll Design

Dish with Incised Scroll Design

900s–1100s
Overall: 1.2 x 9.2 cm (1/2 x 3 5/8 in.); Diameter of base: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This lightly potted shallow dish is carved and combed with what might be flowering peony.

Description

While this dish was donated as a rare white celadon excavated from a Goryeo period tomb, it turns out to be a Song period Chinese Qingbai ware much enjoyed as a luxury item among Korean ruling elites in the Goryeo period (918–1392).
  • ?–1921
    (Dr. Alfred Irving Ludlow [1875–1961], Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1921–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Jongmin, “The Genealogy and Characteristics of Imported Chinese White Porcelain in the Mid-Goryeo Period [고려 중기 수입 중국백자의 계통과 성격].” Misulsa yeongu (2011): 137-160. www.dbpia.co.kr
    Kim, Yunjeong. “The Current State and Characteristics of the Song Dynasty Qingbai Wares Unearthed from Goryeo Sites [고려시대 유적 출토 송대 청백자의 현황과 특징].” Ya-oe gogohak (2013): 91-119. www.kci.go.kr
    Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.644