Buncheong Lidded Bowl with Inlaid Peony Design

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.348

Category

Craft

Era

조선시대(15세기)

Designated year

1963

Location

성북구, 서울특별시— 서울특별시 성북구 성북로 102-11 (성북동, 간송미술관)

Coordinates

37.589116, 127.018215

This work is a lidded bowl with a white clay-inlaid peony petal pattern on the gray base clay. It is painted all over with a gray-white glaze. It has a light blue color and it is 16 cm in height and 16.8 cm in body diameter. It evokes a generous feeling because of the many inlaid peony blossoms and leaves on the body and the slanting face of the lid, and the tiny white inlaid weed pattern around the edge of the lid. A big trunk is stretched out rhythmically among the unfolded peony patterns. There is a band of herb blossom around the mouth of the bowl, below which are two lines with a peony pattern is inlaid between. This bowl used a technique of the age, neoraesanggam, which is usually used in buncheong to inlay by plane, not by line. This is a characteristic china shape of the beginning of Joseon Dynasty. The bottom style becoming open downward gives a good ratio and stable sense with a whole round shape. The kiln where buncheong was made by the neoraesanggam technique was located in Geumgok, Mudeungsan Mountain, Gwangsan-gun, Jeollanam-do. A fragment of pottery made by the same technique appears to be similar to the bowl discovered at the kiln site in Chunghyo-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju in 1963.

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