White Porcelain Underglaze Cobalt Blue Songok Design Bottle

This white porcelain bottle has pine trees with houses beneath them painted in underglaze cobalt blue (cheonghwa) in three places on the body, the composition and brushwork of the painting being outstanding. It is covered with a fine white glaze tinged with pale blue, free of any crackling and with a good lustre. The foot is a neatly trimmed ring foot, fired with fine sand supporting the base of the foot ring. Fine bubbles fill the glaze, giving it a faintly semi-translucent quality, and the cobalt-blue design is not sharply defined but shows traces of running. The bottle is notable both for its size and for belonging to the type of ware produced at the Geumsa-ri kiln site in the early eighteenth century, and it stands out for its painterly quality, being decorated with a pine-and-house design rarely seen on porcelain of the same period.

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Where it is

Region

Gwanak-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산