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Please let me know what you think about this Korean Goryeo Style Celadon Vase recently acquired from an estate. I assume it is a reproduction but have not found any others matching this shape. It is roughly 13” tall. Thank you in advance for any input you may have.
A funny coincidence because this week I bought one of these vases too. Got it quite cheap in the after sale of my local auction house. Mine has a Meiping form and the same decoration of clouds and cranes. The glassy glaze is crackled. The vase is quite heavy and has a two character Chinese mark at the bottom.
Old Korean vases were made with inlays of other colors. On mine however the lines are handpainted while the rest, including the mark, is stamped. But the overall look is quite pleasing.
Searching on Ebay I found three or four identical vases with the same marks (sorry no pictures yet). I guess they are mass produced, possibly in China. They are even sold by Amazon so I think they are recent. My auction house had also described it as a Chinese vase.
Your vase has a different form but might be from the same production. Probably the mark disappeared when the bottom was broken up for a lamp.
Birgit
Hi Henry,
My guess is your vase is early to mid 20th century Korean. I haven’t seen that form either, but this type does come in a wide variety of shapes. Meiping being one of the most common. There are brand new ones which are a bit lighter and have a slightly cheaper feel, but I would guess even those are made in Korea. The reason being that the inlay process is quite time consuming and convoluted. The older ones have a finish which is more matte, less glossy, and the shade of green is darker than the very modern ones. The less modern(late 19th, early 20th) ones also have more variety in the decorations it seems to me.
Birgit, I think the auction house may have made a mistake. Did it just say Chinese, or Korean style, Chinese? If it didn’t even mention Korea, then that is a clear oversight. Do you have a picture of your’s you can post?
Best, Todd
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take it with a grain of salt
Hi Todd,
i think Korean style is correct but my auction house often has very short descriptions. Other than the true Korean vases mine is stamped and painted, not inlaid. Henry, can you check if the patterns on your vase are stamped or printed? I will add some pictures later but have to go now.
Birgit
Some quick pictures of my vase, sorry for the reflections. The pattern is stamped, but the overall quality of the vase is quite nice. It was rather inexpensive, I think it's a Chinese copy in Korean style.
The web is full of printed/stamped vases probably from the same factory like this one:
The Amazon vase is more expensive but seems to be made in the old style with inlaid patterns, probably in Korea:
https://www.amazon.com/Celadon-Pattern-Decorative-Porcelain-Pottery/dp/B005M8GXL0
Birgit
I'd like to add this site full of nice modern Korean porcelain.
http://www.antiquealive.com/store/main.asp?CateNum=3&pname=Celadon-Porcelain
They also have an interesting article about Korean Celadon:
Birgit
Hi Henry -
I don't know to much about Korean ceramics, but I was in the British Museum last week and also the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge recently looking at there Korean galleries and neither has a piece shaped like this.
Todd and Birgit have provided some good points, information and links, I hope these are of some help.
Stuart
Thanks Birgit,
I can see why you believe your vase is printed. The black lines having areas where it is weak, and the clouds looking very similar. But it is still quite nice. Either the Chinese have almost identically copied the vases, color included, or some Korean makers have opted for a less time-consuming process with similar results. Could they still be inlaid, but in a more rushed process? I am not 100% convinced it is printed, although it seems more likely than not being that your eyes are much better than mine for this type of thing.
take it with a grain of salt
Hi Todd,
I have the advantage of holding the vase in my hands so it’s easier to see than on pictures. Studying it with a loupe I can see that the black parts are clearly stamped over the white parts. With the white parts I‘m not so sure but they look a bit washed out so I think they are stamped too. I saw old inlaid pieces in museums. The border between the ground and the inlay is well defined not blurred as on my vase.
I agree with you, it’s either a Chinese or a Korean copy of the old inlaid ware.
Birgit
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