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Pottery: Unknown
Small jar with scrollwork. Stoneware, thrown, brushed with white slip, painted in iron-oxide and punch'ong-glazed. This small jar with rolled rim has the shape of a ginkgo fruit or abacus bead, and a low foot. The upper half of the body is brushed with white slip and painted in dark brown underglaze-iron with simple large-scale scrolls which form a striking contrast to the white ground. The lower half of the body is undecorated. The whole piece is covered with a greyish-blue glaze. The base shows traces of a bamboo tool used to compact the clay and thus prevent cracking, and the piece was fired on a sandy support.
History note: Unknown before donor
Gompertz Gift
Height: 8.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1984) by Gompertz, G. St. G. M., Mr and Mrs
16th Century
Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910)
Circa
1500
-
1550
This type of jar was made for every-day use, probably as a vessel for soups or stews. Vessels decorated in this technique, always with the lower part of the body plain, were made from the end of the fifteenth until the sixteenth century in Hakpong-ri kilns. The type is generally called Kyeryong-san ware, after the area, which includes the village of Hakpong-ri.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( white)
iron-oxide
Glaze
composed of
punch'ong-glaze
Foot
Diameter 5.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 7.7 cm
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown, brushed with white slip, painted in iron-oxide and punch'ong-glazed
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.127-1984
Primary reference Number: 16392
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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