A moulded Korean celadon leaf-scroll pattern bowl
高麗十三世紀 青瓷印纏枝紋盌The bowl is of stoutly potted rounded form supported on a low straight foot. The well of the interior is densely moulded overall in relief with scrolling branches carrying numerous small, veined leaves, all around a whorl in the slightly recessed centre. An opaque grey-green glaze covers the bowl overall, including the underside of the foot and the shallow footrim, leaving three spurmarks unglazed.
Provenance:
The Collection of Herman Lindberg
Exhibited:
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1966, no. 31.
Priestley & Ferraro, 'Chinese and Korean Ceramics and Works of Art', London, November 2019, cat. no. 19.
Herman Lindberg was the son of Gustaf Lindberg (b.1887). Together with the Swedish crown prince and other collectors, they founded the Swedish Oriental Ceramics Society, “Kinablubben”, in 1929.
Dimensions: Diameter: 20 cm, 7 ⅞ inches
Date: Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), 13th century
Stock No. 2251
Price: On Request