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29. ith a dish-shaped mouth and rather square shoulders,
Bottle Wthis bottle rests on a relatively high foot. It is coated
Mid 11th–13th century, Goryeo with olive-colored glaze and painted with simple vegetal mo-
TL results: fired between 800 & 1,200 years ago tifs on opposing sides of the bottle, each executed with three
Stoneware with iron oxide decoration under celadon glaze calligraphic brush strokes painted with iron oxide pigment.
H: 26.1 cm, W: 14.8 cm The footrim and base are partially glazed. Much of the kiln
grit used to keep the glaze from sticking to the firing surface
remains adhered to the base.
A bronze example of this bottle form is held in the collection
of the Harvard Art Museum. The somewhat angular transi-
1
tions in the shape of this vessel suggest the design for this
bottle came from a metalware original.
1 Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Namhi Kim Wagner,
2003.289.
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