An inlaid-celadon gourd-shaped stoneware ewer


Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), 12th-13th centuryThe ewer with a narrow upper bulb and waist and flaring out to an exaggerated lower bulb, the vessel applied with an upright pipe spout and a long, looping handle finished with a coiled sprout, the body decorated with chrysanthemum roundels and wispy clouds in inlaid white slip and iron oxide, all covered with a transparent celadon glaze 12 in (30.5cm) high
|For other inlaid-celadon gourd-shape ewers see; Byung-chang Rhee, ed., Kankoku bijutsu shusen, Korai toji/ Masterpieces of Korean Art, Koryo Ceramics, Tokyo, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppan Kai, 1978, pl. 240 and nos. 245 and 246.