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Flower-shaped Bowl


청자화형발, 靑瓷花形鉢
Korean
Goryeo dynasty
11th–12th century
Object Place: Songdo, Korea

Medium/Technique Glazed stoneware
Dimensions Height: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.), Diameter of Rim: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.), Diameter of Foot: 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Morse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number92.3005
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

ProvenanceFound among the ruins of Manwoldae Palace, Songdo (present-day Kaesong, North Korea) by the land owner; sold by one of his descendants to a Korean official; 1885, sold in Seoul by the official to a US Navy officer [see note 1]; 1889, sold by the US officer to Edward Sylvester Morse (b. 1838 - d. 1925), Salem; 1892, sold by Morse to the MFA (Accession Date: March 1, 1892).

Notes
[1] Edward Sylvester Morse, Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1901. p. 29.