Bottle
Korean
Description
Physical Description:
A glazed porcelain bottle with a short, round and spherical body and a short and narrow concave neck and lipped opening. Detailed with a Korean character, possibly a label for the bottle's contents, in blue.
These are modern pieces thrown on a semi-manual wheel. Their shoulders are decorated with simple designs in underglaze cobalt blue, which is a result of Japanese influence. The use of clay with a high kaolin content has given the bottles thin walls and a strong sheen. Their shoulders are contaminated with impurities. Objects of this this type were produced in Cheongsong-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do.
[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.207]
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