Korean celadon-glazed wine bottle

An image of Wine bottle. Unknown pottery, Korea, South Cholla province, Kangjin-gun, Sadang-ri kilns. This bottle has an elegant outline, with a long neck that flares towards the mouth, and a pear-shaped body. It is completely plain. The foot is wide but very low. The body is of fine clay; the clear semi-transparent glaze is evenly applied all over the body and subtly shimmers in a fine jade colour. The foot is completely glazed, and the base shows five quartzite spur-marks. Stoneware, thrown and celadon-glazed. Height, bottle, 29.6 cm, diameter, rim, 5.4 cm, diameter, foot, 9.8 cm, circa 1100-1150. Koryo Dynasty.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Wine bottle. Unknown pottery, Korea, South Cholla province, Kangjin-gun, Sadang-ri kilns. This bottle has an elegant outline, with a long neck that flares towards the mouth, and a pear-shaped body. It is completely plain. The foot is wide but very low. The body is of fine clay; the clear semi-transparent glaze is evenly applied all over the body and subtly shimmers in a fine jade colour. The foot is completely glazed, and the base shows five quartzite spur-marks. Stoneware, thrown and celadon-glazed. Height, bottle, 29.6 cm, diameter, rim, 5.4 cm, diameter, foot, 9.8 cm, circa 1100-1150. Koryo Dynasty.

Image data

Accession Number: C.419-1984
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 747 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 277.94kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2018:08:02 02:39:18

Key words

12th Century bottle celadon glazed Fitz_AA glazed green Korean Koryo Dynasty pear shaped pottery stoneware thrown vessel wine bottle wine vessel

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Korean celadon-glazed wine bottle"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-205624 Accessed: 2025-12-05 08:55:29

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-205624
            |title=Korean celadon-glazed wine bottle
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-05 08:55:29|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-205624

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_419_1984_1_201808_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Wine bottle"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Korean celadon-glazed wine bottle</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>