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7037
A RARE BUNCHEONG BOWL DECORATED WITH INCISED
CHARACTERS
Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), 15th century
With sloping sides tapering sharply to a ring foot, the interior
decorated with white-slip inlay of a floral medallions within a lappet
band and reserved on a ‘rope-curtain’ ground repeated on the
exterior inscribed with the characters above an impressed foliate
band and multiple inlaid lines, covered by a thin glaze tinged with
green
With wood storage box
2 5/8in (6.8cm) high; 7in (18cm) diameter

US$3,000 - 4,000
A discussion of the names of government offices inscribed on
bucheong wares supplied to the royal court and government
7037 offices is published Soyoung Lee and Jeon Seung-chang, Korean
Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, exh.
cat., (New York, 2011), pp. 12-14.

Other bowls with stamped design and inscriptions are illustrated in
Sunu Choi, The World’s Great Collections Oriental Ceramics, Vol.
2: National Museum of Korea, Seoul, (Tokyo/San Francisco, 1982),
nos. 171-172 and Sunu Choi and Yangmo Chung, The Arts of Korea:
Ceramics (Seoul, 1979), pp. 73-74, nos. 74-74.

7038
A SMALL BUNCHEONG FLASK
Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), 15th century
The flattened cicular body with a short neck flaring to a rolled rim,
decorated with a peony bloom against a rope pattern in with white
slip inlay, the edges of the petals picked out in inlay of iron black, the
sides and oval foot with bands of impressed chrysanthemums
With wood storage box
5 3/4in (14.5cm) high

US$8,000 - 12,000

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