Oil Bottle with Chrysanthemum Design

Accession Number
2004/1.239

Title
Oil Bottle with Chrysanthemum Design

Artist(s)
Korean

Artist Nationality
Korean (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
12th century

Medium & Support
stoneware with inlaid and painted decoration under celadon glaze

Dimensions
1 15/16 x 3 3/16 x 3 3/16 in. (4.8 x 8 x 8 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam

Label copy
March 28, 2009
This small cosmetic oil bottle, with a body in the form of a Korean baduk (gaming piece), has a short neck and a cupped mouth. It once formed part of a toiletry set that included several small celadon cosmetic boxes with flat lids, which were often accompanied by items like silver needle cases, bronze mirrors, and hairpins. They nested into a larger round box or rectangular casket and became part of an upper-class woman’s personal possessions that were buried with her.
(Label for UMMA Korean Gallery Opening Rotation, March 2009)

Subject matter
Cosmetic oil bottle with floral sprays.

Physical Description
Stoneware oil bottle with cup-shaped mouth and body in the shape of a Go gaming piece, or Baduk. The body is decorated with painted floral sprays and covered by celadon glaze.
 

The bottle is embellished with chrysanthemums with pâte-sur-pâte decorative technique and with the leaves in iron- brown. There are three refractory spur marks on the low foot. It has a dark ground color that appears like deep gray. Glaze on the body is oxidized, producing areas of yellow- brown color. The rim of the mouth shows traces of repair.
[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.131]



Primary Object Classification
Ceramic

Primary Object Type
bottle

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Keywords
bottles
celadon (glaze)
ceramic (material)
floral patterns
stoneware (pottery)
underglazing

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Web Use Permitted

On display

UMMA Gallery Location ➜ FFW, Mezzanine ➜ M07 (Woon-hyung Lee and Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art)