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Melon-shaped Plum Bottle (Maebyeong)


도기과형매병, 陶器瓜形梅甁
Korean
Goryeo dynasty
13th century
Object Place: Korea; Söng-do

Medium/Technique Stoneware
Dimensions Height: 32.0 cm (12 5/8 in.), Diameter of Foot: 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection and Denman Waldo Ross
Accession Number99.281
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

Provenance1880s, probably purchased in Japan by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1899, gift of Bigelow and Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge to the MFA (Accession Date: November 7, 1899).