White Porcelain Square Bottle with Marble Design
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jan 2002
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Korea
notes: label: Notes
content: Vessel with square bottom and tall, straight sides. Each side is divided vertically in half with one side made of plain brown clay and the other made of horizontal layers of different colored clays. A small triangle protudes from each side near the top. Outside has coarse texture, clear matte glaze. Inside is smoother, with a dark reddish brown glaze (iron oxide?). Bottom has maker's mark (?) incised.
label: Notes
content: Illustrated p. 78-79 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 Marbleized ceramic vase; Stoneware; 32.7 x 15.7 cm; Late 20th century; By Kyung-joe Roe. Many Korean art potters today work in an internation style that is beyond cultural oundaries. This vase was hand built, making artistic use of different types of clay that fire in different colors.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South 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: 1047370
label: USNM Number
content: E431753-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bottle
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 15.6 cm
label: Width
content: 15.7 cm
label: Height
content: 32.5 cm