Vase with Floral Design (1100s): Art, History and Details

Vase with Floral Design (1100s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This bottle painted with iron-rich pigment beneath celadon glaze was probably produced in Haenam kilns in southern Jella province. The method that paints patterns in iron-oxide pigment is believed to have developed in kilns in China, such as Xicun in Guangzhou, Cizhou and Ding in Hebei province, and Yaozhou in Shaanxi province around the 900s.

Object facts

• Title: Vase with Floral Design
• Date: 1100s
• Culture: Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: celadon with underglaze iron-brown
• Dimensions: Overall: 26.4 cm (10 3/8 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1919.655

A detail from the museum

This bottle was painted with iron-rich pigment beneath celadon glaze.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. J. Livingstone Taylor

Further reading listed by the museum

• Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
• Jang, Nam-won. “The Origin and Development of Ceramics with Underglaze Iron Decoration and White Porcelain in the Goryeo Dynasty [高麗時代鐵畵瓷器의成立과展開].” Misulsa nondan (2004): 41–71.
• Kim, Hyeon-a. "A Study on Consumption Trend of Bangujangkeng bottle in the Goryeo Period [고려시대 瓷器盤口長頸甁의 소비성격과 조형변천]." Misul sahak (2008): 105–141.

View the collection record

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