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A GLAZED CERAMIC MODEL OF A HOUSE WITH FIGURES
Silla dynasty (57 BCE-935 CE), 10th century
The vessel of rectangular shape tapering to short supports, the top
fashioned as a traditional tile roof with a single square aperture,
the front applied with a standing figure flanked by animals in relief,
covered in a thin olive ash glaze
With wood storage box
8 7/8in (22.5cm) high
7057 US$15,000 - 20,000

Another model of a house of the Silla period is illustrated in Han’guk
ui arumdaum V: 土器 / Beauty of Korea V: Earthenware, (1981), pl.
140; for an earlier example from the Three Kingdoms period, see The
Korean Relics in Japan 2: Tokyo National Museum, Osaka Museum
of Oriental Ceramics, Yamato Bunkakan / Han’guk Kukchu Kyoru
Chaedan: Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Osaka Shiritsu Toyo Toji
Bijutsukan, Yamato Bunkakan (Seoul, 1995), p. 119, no. 54.

7057
A MOLDED CERAMIC TILE
Silla dynasty (57 BCE-935 CE) , 7th/8th century
Molded in relief with mythical beast mask with bulging eyes, open
mouth and bovine horns encircled by an abbreviated mane and set
within a U-form frame decorated with scrolls
With wood storage box
6 7/8 (20cm) high

US$2,000 - 3,000
Another roof-end tile with a dragon design and dated to the 7th-8th
century is illustrated in Soyoung Lee and Denise Patry Leidy, Silla:
Korea’s Golden Kingdom, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum
of Art / New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 108, pl. 55.
7056
7058
A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE CENSER
Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), 15th/16th century
The deep straight-sided body raised on a splayed pedestal foot and
finished with a wide flat lipped rim, decorated overall with silver-wire
inlay of four Siddham characters within ruyi-head bordered roundels
in lotus blossoms and leafy flowering tendrils, the rim with a key-fret
band, the pedestal support encircled by a dragon pursing a flaming
jewel
With wood storage box
8 1/8in (20.7cm) high; 8 1/4in (21cm) diameter
US$6,000 - 8,000

A nearly identical incense burner is illustrated in Butterfield’s and
Butterfield’s San Francisco, Fine Oriental Works of Art [sale 4562O],
June 18, 1991, lot 2155.

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