Korean ceramics from a Swiss private collection (Lots 514-519)






A slip-inlaid celadon-glazed ewer


Korea, Colonial PeriodModelled in the Goryeo Dynasty style, the globular body rising to a garlic-head mouth, flanked with a strap handle and upright c-shaped spout, decorated with four floral sprigs inlaid in black and white slip.18cm (7 1/8in) high
|ProvenanceAcquired by the vendor's husband when working as a doctor for the Red Cross in Korea in the 1950s, and thence by descent.