id:			123585
accession number:	1944.164
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updated:		2025-08-07 20:52:49.104000

Vase in the Form of a Melon, 1100s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Celadon; overall: 25.2 cm (9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.164

title:				Vase in the Form of a Melon
title in original language:	청자 참외모양 병 (靑磁瓜形甁)
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creation date:			1100s
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1199
current location:		236 Korean
creditline:			The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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culture:	Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
technique:	celadon
department:	Korean Art
collection:	Korean Art
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 25.2 cm (9 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Korean Ceramics
	opening date:   1968-04-18T05:00:00
	<i>Korean Ceramics</i>. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (April 18-June 2, 1968); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (July 15-August 30, 1968); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (October 1-November 15, 1968).

	title:		Ink, Paper, and Brush - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation
	opening date:   2019-07-24T04:00:00
	<i>Ink, Paper, and Brush - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 24, 2019-January 26, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Francis F. (Elisabeth Severance Allen) Prentiss [1865–1944], Cleveland Heights, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1944
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 74
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n77

	Hollis, Howard. "Chinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>31, no. 6 (June 1944): 103-108.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 103
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141135

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 891
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n158

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 272
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n296

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 272
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n296

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1978</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 364
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n384

	Pak, Youngsook, and Roderick Whitfield. <em>Handbook of Korean Art: Earthenware and Celadon. </em>London: Laurence King, 2003.
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	<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
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	Jang, Nam-won. "The Tea and Celadons during the Goryeo Dynasty: Considering the Celadon Tea Utensils [고려시대 茶文化와 靑瓷]."<em> Musulsa nondan </em>(2007): 129-162.
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	url:		https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01351978

	<em>Korean Celadons, the Best under Heaven</em> [천하제일비색청자]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2012.
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	<em>Goryeo: The Glory of Korea </em>[대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.
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	<em>Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon</em> [高麗青磁 : ヒスイのきらめき]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka: Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, 2018.
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	Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. <em>The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 51
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