Buncheong Ware Sanggammoranyangryumun Bottle

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1541

Category

Craft

Era

15세기

Designated year

2007

Location

관악구, 서울특별시— 서울 관악구 남부순환로152길 53, 호림박물관 (신림동,호림박물관)

Coordinates

37.481072, 126.918352

This is a typical 15th-century buncheong bottle with a handsome shape and tapered silhouette, decorated with inlaid designs of remarkably modern sensibility. The bottle has lotus bands around the shoulder and near the base, with the central section embellished with a big abstract peony design on the front and back rendered in reverse inlay, or sgraffito, with bold black outlines. In between are white weeping willows executed in linear inlay. The bottle is covered with a lustrous grayish-green glaze. It was fired on sand spurs. The bold abstract patterns attest to amazing creativity and are strongly suggestive of a modern design concept. In terms of vessel form and decorative design, the bottle successfully represents the unique aesthetics of buncheong porcelain, which fully matured around the early 15th century.

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