Bottle With Design Of Dragon And Clouds (Cheonghwa Baekja Sulbyeong)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Blue and white porcelain with underglaze of cobalt blue and transparent glaze. This wine bottle is decorated in underglaze cobalt with a four-clawed dragon and clouds. Vessels painted with dragons of five claws were restricted to imperial use. The bottle was first given a bisque firing, resulting in a body with the consistency of hard leather. It was painted in cobalt glaze and submitted to a second firing. Finally it was applied with a thick transparent glaze and fired a third time. Hough gives a vivid description of this bottle: ... Bernadou Field Notes 2 "Actually, stoneware painted with underglaze iron and underglaze copper were produced in the Koryo Dynasty and revived on stoneware and porcelain in the Choson Period by the 16th and 17th centuries." Collected in Kwangju, Kyeonggi province. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XIII upper fig. 2; Bernadou Field Notes 2" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 8]
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: E121613-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bottle
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 31.8 cm
label: Diameter
content: 21 cm
label: Diameter
content: 13.4 cm