Celadon Boksungamoyang Yeonjeok

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1025

Category

Craft

Era

고려시대

Designated year

1990

Location

용산구, 서울특별시— 서울특별시 용산구 이태원로55길 60-16 (한남동, 삼성박물관 리움)

Coordinates

37.536528, 126.996187

Made in the shape of a peach, this water dropper measures 8.6 cm high, 9.6 cm wide, and 7.1 cm long. It looks just like a well-ripened peach with branch and leaves attached to its back. Two leaves are rounded together and placed in the front part of the water dropper. In the middle of its back is a long groove to replicate the look of a real peach. The veins in each leaf are engraved in thin lines. The creative artistry displayed in this water dropper is extraordinary. A real peach is recreated using the natural and graphic technique, with a practical function realized by making it into a small water dropper using the leaves and the branch. The glaze used on this celadon has a jade green color because it includes numerous tiny vacuoles. It is coated thoroughly and perfectly with the glaze as if it flowed naturally along the contour of the peach, adding greater vivacity to the body. As the only remaining celadon peach-shaped water dropper dating back to the Goryeo Dynasty, it is an interesting piece of art not only because it has a magnificent shape but also because it is a prototype for peach-shaped white porcelain water droppers, which became popular in the late Joseon Period.

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