Korean dish with parrots

An image of Chopsi. Dish with parrots. Unknown pottery, Korea, North Cholla province, Puan-gun. Yuch'on-ri kilns. This shallow dish (chopsi) has wide everted sides, angled above the foot. The small foot has a low footring. The centre is finely incised with two long-tailed parrots chasing each other in flight, suggesting a rapid swirling movement, the sides are incised with ten cloud motifs and the outside is undecorated. The glaze is evenly applied, of pale bluish green, with a subtle gloss. The base shows three quartzite spur-marks. Stoneware, thrown, incised and celadon-glazed, height, dish, 4.6 cm, diameter, rim, 16.9 cm, diameter, foot, 6.2 cm, circa 1100-1150. Koryo Dynasty.

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Chopsi. Dish with parrots. Unknown pottery, Korea, North Cholla province, Puan-gun. Yuch'on-ri kilns. This shallow dish (chopsi) has wide everted sides, angled above the foot. The small foot has a low footring. The centre is finely incised with two long-tailed parrots chasing each other in flight, suggesting a rapid swirling movement, the sides are incised with ten cloud motifs and the outside is undecorated. The glaze is evenly applied, of pale bluish green, with a subtle gloss. The base shows three quartzite spur-marks. Stoneware, thrown, incised and celadon-glazed, height, dish, 4.6 cm, diameter, rim, 16.9 cm, diameter, foot, 6.2 cm, circa 1100-1150. Koryo Dynasty.

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Accession Number: C.65-1984
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 764 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 477.09kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2017:03:27 12:22:53

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12th Century birds celadon chopsi dish Fitz_AA glazed green Korean Koryo Dynasty pale green parrots pottery stoneware

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