Maker:
Unknown; pottery
Collection:
Gompertz Collection
Category:
porcelain
Name:
pipe rest
Date:
circa 1800 — 1850
first half of the 19th century
Period(s):
19th century; Choson Dynasty
Description:
Pipe rest with openwork decoration. Porcelain, slab-built, pierced, with parts attached, painted in cobalt-blue and glazed. The cubical body has openwork designs of leaves on three sides and a rounded trefoil opening on the fourth, to receive the bowl of a long Korean pipe. Two 'chimneys' are attached to the top, which is also pierced, one in form of a short cylinder, the other in the shape of a freely-modelled lizard with open mouth. The base is flat. Cobalt-blue in light and dark tones is effectively used to indicate the veins of the leaves and to highlight other parts of the pierced and attached decoration. The bluish-white glaze is thickly applied.
Production
Place:
Korea, partdonesept2012
Production
Place (legacy):
Punwon-ri kilns, pottery, kiln site
Korea, pottery, country
Production
Note:
Few such pipe rests are extant. Tobacco had been introduced to Korea in the seventeenth century, but became really popular only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Technique(s):
slab-building; pipe rest
piercing; decoration
applying; decoration; parts
painting; decoration; in cobalt-blue
glazing (coating); pipe rest
Material(s):
porcelain; pipe rest
glaze; decoration
Technique
Description:
porcelain, slab-built, pierced, with parts attached, painted in cobalt-blue and glazed
Dimension(s):
height, pipe rest, 8.5, cm
width, pipe rest, 6.6, cm
width, pipe rest, 6.1, cm
Acquisition:
given; 1984; Gompertz, G.St.G.M., Mr & Mrs
Provenance:
unknown before donor
Acquisition Credit:
Gompertz Gift
Documentation:
Gompertz, Godfrey St. George Montague. 1968. Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period.London: Faber & Faber
Publ. Illustrated, pl. 104A
Chosen Koseki Zufu.
Cf. nos. 6343, 6344 and 6346, similar pieces are illustrated, some with pipes en suite
Yun, Yong-I. Krahl, Regina. Pak Youngsook. Whitfield, Roderick. 2006. Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. 297
Publ. p.297, no.199
Related Object:
Accession:
Object Number: C.91-1984
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 16502; input: 2000-12-06; modified: 2012-09-06)
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