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71. his bottle has a long trumpeted neck and mouth on a
Bottle Tglobular body. It is coated in greenish-tinted glaze, in-
18th–19th century, Joseon cluding on the base. The footrim is free of glaze and has oxi-
TL results: fired between 250 & 400 years ago dized to an orangish color during firing, much of which is
Porcelain covered in kiln grit.
H: 26.5 cm, W: 17 cm
Courtesy of Daewon Kwon and Chong J. Kwon A similarly shaped but slightly taller bottle painted with a
dragon in cobalt is held in the ethnology collections of the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The original col-
1
lector, John Baptiste Bernadou (1858–1908), obtained that
bottle in Gwangju, Gyeonggi province. In his original field
notes, Bernadou states the vessel is a “water bottle.” Work-
ing with Korean expatriates in Washington, D.C., Dr. Walter
Hough (1859–1935) was the first to write a monograph on
Bernadou’s Korean collection. He writes of the bottle: “Used
2
in buying and selling liquors, but not at the table.” It may be
3
that these bottles were used for both alcoholic and nonalco-
holic beverages (see entry for cat. 73). However, they were
unlikely used for hot beverages, as handleless vessels would
burn the hands when pouring.

1 USNM ECC 121613

2 Walter Hough, “The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Korean Collections (HKC), in the U.S. National
Museum,” in The U.S. National Museum Annual Report (USNM-AR) for 1891 (Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1892), 429-488.
3 Chang-su Cho Houchins, An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Col-
lection 1884-1885 (Washington, D.C.: Asian Cultural History Program, National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution, 2004), 32.
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