Plum Bottle (Maebyeong)
early 13th century
Object PlaceKorea
Medium/TechniqueStoneware with celadon glaze and incised and inlaid decorations
DimensionsHeight: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.), Diameter of Mouth: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.), Diameter of Foot: 10.4 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Credit LineMorse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession number92.2997
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceFound among the ruins of Manwoldae Palace, Songdo (present-day Kaesong, North Korea) by the land owner; sold by one of his descendants to a Korean official; 1885, sold in Seoul by the official to a US Navy officer [see note 1]; 1889, sold by the US officer to Edward Sylvester Morse (b. 1838 - d. 1925), Salem; 1892, sold by Morse to the MFA (Accession Date: March 1, 1892).
Notes
[1] Edward Sylvester Morse, Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1901. p. 29.
Notes
[1] Edward Sylvester Morse, Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1901. p. 29.
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