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| Size; height: 34.7cm; body diameter; 20.5cm; mouth diameter: 9.4cm; foot diameter; 10.5cm |
This exceptionally large wine bottle has an elegant outline, with a voluminous pear-shaped body rising with a tapered long neck that flares toward a wide mouth rim. This type of vase is called "Yuhuchun Vase" by Chinese ceramics connoisseurs. The shape is particularly rare for its amply swelling bottom section and its large size. Large white peony flowers with fully-opened blooms and small buds among scrolling black foliage are depicted by slip inlaid resembling paper-cut under a clear glossy glaze. Typical border decoration of continuous Ruyi motif and pointed banana leaves lines the top of the shoulder and the bottom area above the shallow foot rim. The striking contrast of white and dark black slip inlaid under glass-like clear glaze with long crackles points this vase to Yuchon-ri kiln of around 1160's. The technique for using broad planar inlaid pieces to depict large peony flower was rarely used on Koryo celadon, although many 15th Century Punch'ong examples are known and called by Japanese connoisseurs as " Planar Inlaid".
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