Bottle Inlaid with Peony and Scroll Design (1400s): Art, History and Details

Bottle Inlaid with Peony and Scroll Design (1400s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Produced in both central and provincial kilns during during the 1400s–1500s, Buncheong (literally means "powdered green"), like this wine bottle commonly feature gray-green glaze due to the usage of less processed and refined clay high in iron. Many experimental techniques: white slip, inlay, stamping, and incising, which had been explored and perfected by Goryeo-period artists, were also adopted for bucheong pottery, yet resulting bold and whimsical visual impacts, completely different from elegant and refined Goryeo celadons.

Object facts

• Title: Bottle Inlaid with Peony and Scroll Design
• Date: 1400s
• Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: stoneward with inlaid, incised, and sgraffito design (Buncheong ware)
• Dimensions: Outer diameter: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); Overall: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1990.14

A detail from the museum

The term buncheong, which refers to this type of pottery, means "powdered gray-green glazed ceramics.”

Collection credit

The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “Acquisitions: 1990.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 2 (February 1991): 30–45.
• Park, Kyung-ja and Park Hyeong-soon. “Evolution of the Buncheong Wares in the Early Joseon Period as the White Porcelain Takes over the Taxation Supply [조선 전기 공납용 백자제작에 따른 분청사기 양식변화].” Misul sahak (2010): 291–321.
• Lee, So-young, and Seung-chang Jeon. Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.

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