Name: TWO KOREAN CELADON-GLAZED BOWLS
Brand: GORYEO DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Price: 800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

TWO KOREAN CELADON-GLAZED BOWLS
GORYEO DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
One bowl has rounded sides rising from a flat base and with a slip-decorated band on the interior, covered with a pale green glaze suffused with crackle. The other bowl is of conical form raised on a short foot, incised with a ring border on the interior, covered all over with a bluish-green glaze.
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) diam. (2)

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Christie's is pleased to offer a selection of porcelain, jade carvings and works of art from the collection of Dr. Ralph W. Chaney (1890-1971). Dr. Chaney was a renowned paleontologist who collected porcelain and works of art throughout his lifetime of travels and scientific study in China and Japan. In 1925, he participated in the Third Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia, where the world's first discovery of dinosaur eggs was made, and he discovered the first fossilized redwood trees in Manchuria. He was a major participant in the search for the "Peking Man" at the Choukoutien Cave site and, in 1948, Dr. Chaney mounted a successful expedition to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China in search of the Metasequoia, a living species of redwood tree that was thought to be extinct. With science, Dr. Chaney lived his passion for discovery. He applied the same passion to his personal collecting.