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Flask with fish and scroll design


분청자선각박지어당초문편병, 粉靑瓷線刻剝地魚唐草文扁甁
Korean
Joseon dynasty
late 15th century
Object Place: Korea

Medium/Technique Buncheong stoneware with incised and sgraffito decoration
Dimensions H. 22.8 cm (9 in.); diam. of rim: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); diam. of body: 18.3 x 13.9 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection and Denman Waldo Ross
Accession Number99.298
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Korea (2012), pp. 114-5
Provenance1880s, probably purchased in Japan by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1899, gift of Bigelow and Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge to the MFA (Accession Date: November 7, 1899).

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.