Buncheong Bottle with Sgraffito Floral Design in Underglaze Iron

This Buncheong Bottle with Sgraffito Floral Design in Underglaze Iron is an early Joseon buncheong (grey stoneware coated with white slip) vessel, 20.4 cm high, with a mouth diameter of 5.2 cm and a base diameter of 8 cm. The grey clay body was first coated with white slip and the design drawn onto it; the background around the pattern was then scraped away, and an iron-oxide wash was applied over the scraped areas, so that the dark greenish background contrasts vividly and harmoniously with the white pattern. The design is a stylised peony motif, revealing a free and lively sensibility unbound by formal convention. Around the neck of the bottle runs a band of stylised lotus-petal design. The glaze is a transparent greyish-blue, tinged pale brown in places. Although the surface is not perfectly smooth, the overall shape and the decorative design give the piece a familiar, homely charm.

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Where it is

Region

Seongbuk-gu, Seoul

Designation

Treasure · 보물