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Flask-Shaped Bottle, 16th century; Choson dynasty (1392–1910)
Korean
Punch'ong ware; H. 8 5/8 in. (22 cm)
Ho-Am Art Museum, Yongin
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This stoneware vessel was freely painted with a few quickly applied brushstrokes of white slip, which consists of clay or other materials suspended in water. The decoration, therefore, was made with a substance closely related to that used to make the vessel itself. Known as punch'ong ("powder-green") ware, this type of ceramic was produced in Korea in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for the common people, and was highly prized by Japanese practitioners of the tea ceremony.

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	Flask-Shaped Bottle, 16th century; Choson dynasty (1392–1910) Korean Punch'ong ware; H. 8 5/8 in. (22 cm) Ho-Am Art Museum, Yongin		Take a closer look! This stoneware vessel was freely painted with a few quickly applied brushstrokes of white slip, which consists of clay or other materials suspended in water. The decoration, therefore, was made with a substance closely related to that used to make the vessel itself. Known as punch'ong ("powder-green") ware, this type of ceramic was produced in Korea in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for the common people, and was highly prized by Japanese practitioners of the tea ceremony. Try again!