A large Korean celadon-glazed cup and a stand, Goryeo dynasty | 高麗王朝 青釉盞配盞托

Kochukyo & Co., Tokyo.

Japanese Private Collection.

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壺中居，東京

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Koryo celadons were originally inspired by celadons of the Song dynasty but reached an apex of quality in the 12th century, when vessels such as the present example were created for elite society. The wine cup here is intricately incised with luxuriant flowers supported by a lobed stand incised with lotus petals at the center. Compare three cups and cupstands of similar lobed form, in the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, included in the Museum’s exhibition Koryo Celadon Masterpieces, Seoul, 1989, cat. nos 85, 86 and 87; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Le Blond Collection of Corean Pottery, London, 1918, pl. 46; and a third from the collection of G. St.G.M. Gompertz and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in Yun Yong-i, Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum: A Complete Catalogue, Cambridge, 2006, pl. 51. Another Koryo 12th century incised celadon cup and cupstand was included in the exhibition An Introduction to Koryo Celadon, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1992, cat. no. 46, and more recently in Mayuyama, An Exhibition of Tang, Song and Goryeo Celadon. Sublime Celadon, Tokyo, 2023, cat. no. 69.

See also another wine cup and stand in the Kimbell Art Museum (accession nos AP 1970.12 a, b), another from the Pilkington Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 6th April 2016, lot 93, and a third from the collection of Dr. Kenneth Lawley, sold in our London rooms, 1st November 2023, lot 47.

Similar cupstands have been recovered from the Yuch’ŏn-ri kiln site; see two reconstructed examples included in the Special Exhibition of Ceramics in Koryŏ Dynasty from the Kiln Site of Yu-Cheun-ri, Guan-gun, Cholla-buk-do, Ewha University Museum, Seoul, 1983, cat. no. 111.