Celadon Toehwaseonmun Pyojubakmoyang Pitcher

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1399

Category

Craft

Era

고려시대(12세기)

Designated year

2004

Location

종로구, 서울특별시— 서울특별시 종로구

Coordinates

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The upper part of this object is much smaller than the lower part and is adorned with six vertical lines around the mouth. The large lower part gives it a sense of stability. The bottom is wide and high. Its gourd-shaped body contains no patterns at all. The spout and the back handle are adorned with geometrical patterns that look like sprouts and nodes of a young bamboo by means of thin, delicate depressed engraving and semi-relief engraving. Paste-on-paste dots are made neatly -- using white soil moistened with water -- along the lines made with depressed engraving and semi-relief engraving. The part connecting the handle with the body looks like a twisted bamboo stalk. The spout resembles the sprout of a young bamboo. The bottom was separately made and attached to the body, just like the spout and the handle. The celadon, which dates back to the 12th Century, was made with transparent glaze as well as the best-quality source soil. It has the imposing, stable shape of an object with linear beauty.