An incised and iron-brown painted buncheong vase, Joseon dynasty, late 15th - early 16th century | 朝鮮十五世紀末至十六世紀初 　粉青沙器鐵繪雙魚紋瓶

A Japanese private collection.

Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

5th Anniversary Exhibition. All-Stars of the Okada Collection: Masterworks of Korin, Jakuchu, Hokusai and the Ru Ware Kilns, Okada Museum of Art, Hakone, 2018-19, exh. no. 428 (unillustrated).

Buncheong wares decorated with iron-oxide pigment was produced almost exclusively at the kilns of the Gyeryongsan Mountains at Hakbong-ri, Gongju, Chungcheong Province, and were among the last of the buncheong produced at this site. As such, they are often called ‘Gyeryongsan buncheong’. The shape and decorative technique of the present vase resemble Cizhou painted wares from Yuan dynasty China. Although there is no direct connection between Cizhou and buncheong ware, and it is possible that such techniques and motifs were independently devised during the Joseon period, Cizhou ceramics were exported to Korea in large quantities around the 14th century, as exemplified by finds from the famous Sinan shipwreck. 

For a closely related vase, painted with stylistically similar fish but lacking the two registers of decoration above, compare one in the collection of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, illustrated in ibid., cat. no. 39. Another vase, with more exaggerated fish scales, was formerly in the collection of Avery Brundage and is now in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (accession no. B65P63). A further vase with more stylized and abbreviated painting is in the British Museum, London (accession no. 2000,1130.1). See two others sold at Christie's New York: the first, 18th September 2000, lot 370, and the second, 14th April 2016, lot 99.

來源

日本私人收藏

壺中居，東京

展覽

《開館5周年記念展―美のスターたち―光琳．若冲．北斎．汝窯など名品勢ぞろい》， 岡田美術館，箱根，2018-19年，展覽編號428（沒載圖）

以鐵氧化物顏料裝飾之粉青沙器，幾乎專於忠清道公州市雞龍山黑鳳里窰場燒製，且為該地最後一批粉青沙器作品之一，故常被稱為「雞龍山粉青沙器」。此瓶之器形及裝飾技法，頗似元代中國磁州窰彩繪器。雖磁州窰器與粉青沙器之間並無直接聯繫，但此類技法與紋飾或許於朝鮮時代自發產生，亦可能受十四世紀大量輸往朝鮮之磁州器影響，正如「新安沉船」出土品所證 。

相關器物可參考首爾三星美術館Leeum所藏一件風格類似之魚紋瓶，唯缺乏瓶身上兩層裝飾帶，見《 Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art》，紐約，2011年，圖錄編號39。另有一件魚鱗紋更誇張之瓶，原為艾弗里·布倫戴奇（Avery Brundage）收藏，現藏於舊金山亞洲藝術博物館（館藏編號B65P63）。此外，大英博物館藏有一件紋飾更程式化且筆觸簡約之例（館藏編號2000,1130.1）。另有類似器物曾於紐約佳士得2000年9月18日，拍品編號370，另見紐約佳士得2016年4月14日，拍品編號99。