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A LARGE KOREAN CELADON-GLAZED CUP AND 高麗王朝 高麗王朝 青釉盞配盞托
A STAND, GORYEO DYNASTY
Japanese inscribed wood box (4) 來源：
Diameter 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm
壺中居，東京
PROVENANCE 日本私人收藏

Kochukyo & Co., Tokyo.
Japanese Private Collection.
Koryo celadons were originally inspired by celadons of the
Song dynasty but reached an apex of quality in the 12th
century, when vessels such as the present example were
created for elite society. The wine cup here is intricately
incised with luxuriant flowers supported by a lobed stand
incised with lotus petals at the center. Compare three cups
and cupstands of similar lobed form, in the National Museum
of Korea, Seoul, included in the Museum’s exhibition Koryo
Celadon Masterpieces, Seoul, 1989, cat. nos 85, 86 and
87; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
illustrated in Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Le Blond
Collection of Corean Pottery, London, 1918, pl. 46; and a third
from the collection of G. St.G.M. Gompertz and now in the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in Yun Yong-i,
Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the
Fitzwilliam Museum: A Complete Catalogue, Cambridge,
2006, pl. 51. Another Koryo 12th century incised celadon cup
and cupstand was included in the exhibition An Introduction
to Koryo Celadon, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics,
Osaka, 1992, cat. no. 46, and more recently in Mayuyama,
An Exhibition of Tang, Song and Goryeo Celadon. Sublime
Celadon, Tokyo, 2023, cat. no. 69.
See also another wine cup and stand in the Kimbell Art
Museum (accession nos AP 1970.12 a, b), another from the
Pilkington Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 6th April
2016, lot 93, and a third from the collection of Dr. Kenneth
Lawley, sold in our London rooms, 1st November 2023, lot 47.
Similar cupstands have been recovered from the Yuch’ŏn-ri
kiln site; see two reconstructed examples included in the
Special Exhibition of Ceramics in Koryŏ Dynasty from the
Kiln Site of Yu-Cheun-ri, Guan-gun, Cholla-buk-do, Ewha
University Museum, Seoul, 1983, cat. no. 111.
⊖ $ 60,000-80,000

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