Wine Flask with Incised and Sgraffito Peony Design
Unknown Artist
1500s
Medium
stoneware with incised design (Buncheong ware)
Dimensions
h. 22.6 cm · diameter of mouth 4.5 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of John L. Severance
Accession Number
1921.649
About this artwork
Produced in both central and provincial kilns during during the 1400s–1500s, buncheong (literally means "powdered green"), like this wine flask commonly feature gray-green glaze due to the usage of less processed and refined clay high in iron. Many experimental techniques such as white slip, inlay, stamping, and incising, which had been explored and perfected in the Goryeo period, were also adopted for buncheong pottery. The artist for this work extensively used the incising technique to draw bo...