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The Goryeo [Koryo] period (918-1392) is famous for its green glazed, or celadon, wares. Beginning in the mid 12th century, many of these were inlaid, made by lightly carving into the surface and filling the cut-out areas with moistened white or dark clay. Then glaze was applied, and the objects were fired.
Korean
Diam: 7 15/16 × H: 2 3/8 in. (20.2 × 6.1 cm)
medium: Porcelain with blue-green glaze (cheongja) and inlay decoration (sanggam)
culture: Korean
Walters Art Museum, 1994, by gift.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire
Diam. 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
medium: Gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1979.486.6 1979
Gift of Heinz L. Stoppelmann, 1979
H: 4 7/16 x W: 1 1/8 x D: 1 15/16 in. (11.24 x 2.83 x 4.86 cm)
medium: Egyptian faience with green glaze
dynasty: 26th Dynasty
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
The top of a wrap-around garment is seen on this unfinished work. It may have been intended as a royal statue, then altered for a private owner, which would explain the chiseled area on the forehead where the uraeus serpent, a symbol of royalty, may have been.
Egyptian
8 7/16 x 4 9/16 x 4 3/4 in. (21.5 x 11.6 x 12.1 cm)
mount: 5 5/16 x 4 13/16 x 5 1/8 in. (13.5 x 12.2 x 13 cm)
medium: granodiorite
culture: Egyptian
dynasty: 27th-30th Dynasty
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
This precious volume was obviously highly prized by its owner, the French-born King of Navarre, who had his coat of arms painted on no less than twenty folios. Rather than directly commissioning this manuscript from a specific workshop, it seems that Charles the Noble acquired his book of hours -- perhaps ready-made for the luxury market -- while on a trip to Paris in 1404-05. A collaborative effort, six painting styles are evidenced within the pages of this codex, those of two Italians, two Frenchmen, and two Netherlanders. The painter who was responsible for the planning and decoration of the book, and who produced seventeen of the large miniatures, was a Bolognese artist known as the Master of the Brussels Initials. His principal assistant, responsible for most of the borders, was a Florentine who signed his name "Zecho" da Firenze on folio 208 verso.
France, Paris
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Guan ware was the official ware fired at the Southern Song imperial kilns in Hangzhou. Multiple glazing is characteristic of this ware. The total thickness of the glaze can be greater than the clay body that supports it. Here, the thick gray-green glaze is webbed with a wide network of dark brown crackles as well as finer webs of light golden-brown and colorless crackles. The crackle pattern was developed after firing, due to the different rates of expansion and contraction of the body and the glaze. It was consciously exploited to achieve an aesthetic effect and was stained at different stages during the cooling process.
China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware
Diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.)
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The base shows that the basin was fired on 17 small spurs arranged in two concentric circles.
John L. Severance Fund