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Oil Bottle with Scroll Design

Oil Bottle with Scroll Design

1100s-1200s
(918–1392)
celadon ware
Outer diameter: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.); Overall: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Gift of John L. Severance 1928.162
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This bottle was used to contain oil treatment for hair.

Description

Celadons, spoons, seals, and bronze mirrors were the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918-1392). Once used to contain oil treatment for hair, this little celadon bottle was one of the standard goods that furnished elites' tombs.
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    Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon [高麗青磁 : ヒスイのきらめき]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka: Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, 2018.
    Tajima, Mitsuru, Wil Lautenschlager, and Kawanishi Noriko. Celadons of the Koryŏ court = Kōrai ōchō : hishoku seiji no kirameki. Tokyo: London Gallery, 2010.
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