A RARE IRON SLIP-COATED, INLAID WHITE SLIP-DECORATED AND CELADON-GLAZED MAEBYONG koryo dynasty (mid 12th century) Of evenly proportioned maebyong form with high, rounded shoulders, tapered body, flat foot with shallow recessed base, short neck and cup-form mouth with slightly extended rim, decorated on opposite shoulders with two herb sprays, the outlines of the leaves and pencil-thin stems incised and inlaid with white slip and the broad leaves scraped through the iron coating and then applied with white slip, the surface covered by a celadon glaze which pools in looped and vertical rivulets in several areas of the body and which is concentrated in one section below the neck and in several areas above the foot in mist-like patches, the interior of the mouth also coated with iron slip and celadon glaze and the foot bearing traces of iron coating and celadon glaze, the recessed base unglazed, slight kiln grit adhesion on the foot, no spur marks, visible craquelure in the celadon glaze covering the leaves decorated in white slip, small places in the iron coating revealing the clay body of the vessel colored rust from the firing--10¼in. (26.0cm.) high
A RARE IRON SLIP-COATED, INLAID WHITE SLIP-DECORATED AND CELADON-GLAZED MAEBYONG koryo dynasty (mid 12th century) Of evenly proportioned maebyong form with high, rounded shoulders, tapered body, flat foot with shallow recessed base, short neck and cup-form mouth with slightly extended rim, decorated on opposite shoulders with two herb sprays, the outlines of the leaves and pencil-thin stems incised and inlaid with white slip and the broad leaves scraped through the iron coating and then applied with white slip, the surface covered by a celadon glaze which pools in looped and vertical rivulets in several areas of the body and which is concentrated in one section below the neck and in several areas above the foot in mist-like patches, the interior of the mouth also coated with iron slip and celadon glaze and the foot bearing traces of iron coating and celadon glaze, the recessed base unglazed, slight kiln grit adhesion on the foot, no spur marks, visible craquelure in the celadon glaze covering the leaves decorated in white slip, small places in the iron coating revealing the clay body of the vessel colored rust from the firing--10¼in. (26.0cm.) high
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