Bowl with incised floral pattern on interior bottom and sides / Artist Unknown, Korea
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.224
- Title
- Bowl with incised floral pattern on interior bottom and sides
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Artist Nationality
- Korean
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with celadon glaze
- Object Creation Date
- early 12th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Korean Peninsula (peninsula)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Korean Peninsula (peninsula)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
- Dimensions
- 6.8 cm x 18.1 cm (2 11/16 in. x 7 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 12th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- bowl
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- The celadon bowl is close in shape to a perfect hemisphere, and its rim is turned very slightly outward. There is a peony design on the wall and bottom. The color is olive grey. It has a small concave foot.
- Subject Matter
- During the nearly five centuries of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), celadon constituted the main type of ceramics produced on the Korean peninsula. This exquisite ware typically appears gray-green in hue. The color of Goryeo celadon owes much to the raw materials—specifically, the presence of iron in the clay and of iron oxide, manganese oxide, and quartz particles in the glaze—as well as to the firing conditions inside the kiln. Temperatures were commonly around, or below, 1150ºC, and the level of oxygen within the kiln was dramatically reduced at some stage of the firing; this is known as a reducing, rather than an oxidizing, atmosphere. Goryeo celadon ranges from a plain, undecorated type to objects with incised, carved, mold-impressed, or inlaid designs, and to vessels embellished with colorful compounds like iron oxide (black or brown) and copper oxide (red), and also with gold.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2004/1.224
- Link to this Item
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"Bowl with incised floral pattern on interior bottom and sides; Artist Unknown, Korea." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2004-sl-1.224/rgo2004.9.083.1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
