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[edit]Bottle
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| Title |
Bottle |
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| Object type | Classification: NM3.11167 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Bottle, stoneware, celadon glaze with impressed and incised decoration "Wine flask, stoneware. KORYO. Celadon glaze, faceted body with pattern of chrysanthemum petals impressed below neck." (gallery card) This well shaped flask with its light clear green celadon glaze has a pattern of chrysanthemum petals incised around the shoulder. The wall of the bottle is patterned with plain panels each finished neatly with an incised curve. The faceting is repeated under the trumpet shaped mouth.(from Korean Gallery label copy) |
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| Date | Koryo period, 918-1392-Korea, art period; 25 Dec 1995; Circa 12th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Glazing (coating)/coating (process) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 270mm |
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| Accession number |
1976.47 |
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| Place of creation | Chonju | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Display: Arts of Asia Gallery | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | collection of National Museum Of Korea, 1995, on loan to Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1976.47, K2392, 096, 12136 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | This ceramic vessel was made in Korea, sometime between 918 and 1392 AD, which is the period of the Koryo dynasty. Quite often artworks are described by the name of the kingdom during which they were produced, and it becomes a way to identify their style. This is a particularly special time for ceramics, and Korea is famous for producing domestic objects like bottles and bowls that were incised with patterns and then glazed with celadon, a type of transparent glaze that can come in different colours but which is most prized for jade greens, which might be pale or really intense. Korean pottery borrowed a great deal from China, but it is often considered that Koryo potters achieved something so extraordinary with this inspiration that even Chinese potters and collectors of the period were impressed. A glaze is a coating which is fused to the object by firing. Partly it is functional, sealing the surface of the clay so that it holds water or food better, but it is also about appearance. With a glaze you can add colour and different kinds of surface textures. It is a way to beautify the pot. Glazes usually include silica, which makes them glassy, chemicals that make them melt at different temperatures, and then chemicals that create the colour. Celadon uses iron oxide to produce the beautiful greens, but the colour will also be affected by the kind of clay used to make the object, and the way it is fired – by reducing the level of oxygen in the kiln, you can produce chemical changes in the glaze and thus achieve different colours. Apart from the beautiful colour of the celadon glazes, these Korean ceramics are special because of the way they have been decorated with incised patterns which emphasise the form of the clay body, and add another layer of decoration and meaning. Flowers are commonly used, like the petals of the lotus or the chrysanthemum, turned into elegant forms that don’t look naturalistic but carry something of the natural world with them. It is a good example of the potter as a designer, taking inspiration from the world around them and then transforming this inspiration into designs that will perfectly suit a three-dimensional object with curving surfaces. These variations also showcase the celadon glaze, creating little variations in colour as the glaze thins on the ridges or pools in the indentations. There’s a New Zealand connection here, too. Local potters in the 1950s and 1960s would come to the Auckland Museum to look at ceramics from China and Korea, to study them and absorb their artistic ideas. Pots like these were considered to be the most perfect achievement, a combination of form and decoration that all potters, even those working in Aotearoa in the twentieth century, should aspire to follow and learn from. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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