Bowl (Koryo Cheongja Bosigi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: Illustrated p. 60-61 in Taylor, Paul Michael, and Christopher J. Lotis. 2008. Flagship of a fleet: a Korea Gallery guide. Washington, D.C.: Asian Cultural History Program, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Bowl; Stoneware; celadon glaze; 5.5 x 14 cm; 10th-11th century; Goryeo. This bowl is closely related to the Chinese Yue celadon ware. It was probably used for drinking tea. The color of the celadon was considered a good aesthetic complement to tea.
label: Notes
content: "12th century. Stoneware with crackled grayish-green celadon glaze. This small bowl is of stoneware covered with a light grayish-green celadon glaze with extensive craquelure. Hough catalogues it as "Koreu-gi-bo-si" [Koryo bowl], a translation of bosigi, a small ceramic or metal bowl. Bernadou Field Notes 62 "... About four hundred years old. It will be noticed that in this ware the bottom is never completely glazed; but that at one or more points where the vessel on the furnace floor [sic] the glaze is absent. Also that there is no mark, character or seal device of any kind that would indicate the place of manufacture. In many specimens the weight, compared with that of pottery made elsewhere, is remarkably great." The points to which Bernadou refers are commonly called spur marks, or small, unglazed balls of clay applied to vessels to separate them when they are stacked in the kiln to be fired. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XII, lower fig. 3; Bernadou Field Notes 62" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 5]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E121618-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 5.8 cm
label: Diameter
content: 14 cm