Accession Number
2004/1.268

Title
Buncheong Ware Wine Bottle with painted Ginseng Leaf Design

Artist(s)
Korean

Artist Nationality
Korean (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
16th century

Medium & Support
stoneware with iron oxide painting over white slip

Dimensions
11 13/16 x 6 13/16 x 6 13/16 in. (30 x 17.3 x 17.3 cm)

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

Label copy
Like the smaller wine bottle nearby (2004/HN.133), this too is probably from the kilns at Mount Gyeryong in southwest Korea. Here the entire vessel was coated with white slip before being painted. An admixture of manganese in the iron slip produced the dark, almost black shade of brown.
Maribeth Graybill, The Enduring Art of the Korean Potter, December 12, 2004-November 6, 2005

Physical Description
Most buncheong bottles excavated from tombs have damaged mouth. This bottle, too, has been repaired after complete breakage of its rim. The chemicals used during the restoration have flowed down to the center of the body. The rim of the foot reveals the unglazed body and shows the traces of building the foot. The bottle was produced at a kiln in Hakbong-ri, Gongju-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. Its glaze was thinly applied, thus the iron-oxide pigment and white slip have peeled off in many places.
[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.153]

Primary Object Classification
Ceramic

Primary Object Type
bottle

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Keywords
Punch'ong
bottles
ceramic (material)
stoneware (pottery)
underglazing