Wine Ewer with Incised Bamboo Shoot Design
1100s
- Medium
- celadon ware with incised decoration
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 14.7 cm (5 13/16 in.); Overall: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Korean Art
- Credit line
- Gift of John L. Severance
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Natural motifs inspired the shape of celadon vessels as well as their inlaid designs in the Goryeo period. This wine ewer is shaped like a bamboo shoot, but it also resembles a lotus bud. Even though the spout was repaired, the ewer is a masterpiece of Goryeo period celadon. Ewers of the same shape are now housed at the National Museum of Korea and the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.
