Vase with Floral Design

1100s

Vase with Floral Design, 1100s. Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392). Celadon with underglaze iron-brown; overall: 26.4 cm (10 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. J. Livingstone Taylor 1919.655 This bottle painted with iron-rich pigment beneath celadon glaze was probably produced in Haenam kilns in southern Jella province. The method that paints patterns in iron-oxide pigment is believed to have developed in kilns in China, such as Xicun in Guangzhou, Cizhou and Ding in Hebei province, and Yaozhou in Shaanxi province around the 900s. This bottle was painted with iron-rich pigment beneath celadon glaze.