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Goryeo Celadon Bottle Vase
Goryeo Dynasty 11th - 12th c. Korea
Height: 32 cm
A stoneware bottle vase of pear-shaped form with elegantly elongated neck. It sits on a short, slightly splayed foot rim, unglazed at the bottom and revealing a pale gray clay body fired to a russet color. The glaze has fired to a finely crackled brownish green color, that becomes a minty green towards the bottom and in the under-foot well.
Condition:Chip to mouth rim re-stuck with original material.
Provenance:
Robert Moore Collection
Christies New York, Oct. 16th 1986 lot 21, from Robert Moore.
John R. Menke Collection
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