Large Koryo Celadon Inlaid Tile

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Artist Unknown Korean

CultureKorean

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Large Koryo Celadon Inlaid Tile

Date12th–13th century

MediumStoneware

DimensionsOverall: 9 3/16 × 12 1/16 × 1/4 in. (23.4 × 30.7 × 0.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director’s Accessions Endowment, Dr. Soon Duck Lim, Mrs. Young-Il and Mr. Tae-Woo Park, Mrs. Ki Jung and Dr. Christopher Kwon, Mrs. Young-Il and Mr. Jin-Sung Chung, Mrs. In-Suk and Mr. Ki-Bun Koo, Mrs. Chan-Ju and Dr. Casey Youn, Mrs. Chong Ok Matthews, Mrs. Jae Jung and Dr. Ho-Seong Lee, Ms. Joanne Kim, Ms. Gigi Myung, Mrs. Heechae and Mr. Eugene Choo, Dr. Jungsil Ro

Object number2025.226

Non exposé

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Department

Asian Art

Object Type

CERAMICS

ProvenancePrivate collection, Japan (with Bunkacho export certificate); [Zetterquist Galleries, New York, 2024]; purchased by MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Published References A similar piece is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, acquired in 1933 and published in the 1914 Japan Society catalog. Another example has been housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art since 1918. The Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka holds two tiles, including a smaller example published in their 1992 An Introduction to Koryo Celadon (pl. 80). A fourth example is in the Korean National Museum, published in Sekai Touji Zenshu, Shogakukan Tokyo, 1978, Vol. 18, pl. 147. Most recently, an almost identical piece was accessioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a slightly different central cartouche design featuring birds in trees. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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