. The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Corean collections in the National Museum . Saucer. Ancient celadon of opaque, porcelaneous, light gray, hard thick vitreous green, crackled; the resulting combination givinga beautiful gray-green color resembling some varieties of jades. Height,li^fi inches; diameter, 5| inches. (Cat. No. 130885, U. S. N. M. Song-do,Korea. Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen.) Fig. 5. Bowl. Light gray, opaque, hardi)aste covered with thick crackled, vitreousglaze, the color of green jade. Glaze vesicular; faint leaf tracing underglaze. Like 130885 in appearance. Heigh
. The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Corean collections in the National Museum . Saucer. Ancient celadon of opaque, porcelaneous, light gray, hard thick vitreous green, crackled; the resulting combination givinga beautiful gray-green color resembling some varieties of jades. Height,li^fi inches; diameter, 5| inches. (Cat. No. 130885, U. S. N. M. Song-do,Korea. Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen.) Fig. 5. Bowl. Light gray, opaque, hardi)aste covered with thick crackled, vitreousglaze, the color of green jade. Glaze vesicular; faint leaf tracing underglaze. Like 130885 in appearance. Height, 2^ inches; diameter, 6 J inches.(Cat. No. 130884, U. S. N. M. Song-do, Korea. Collected by Dr. H. ) Fig. 6. Bowl. Fine, white, hard-paste porcelain, elegant shape, light and slightly greenish. Wave or cloud ornamentation worked in thepaste under glaze. Extremely rare. Height, 2,^^ inches; diameter, Trginches. (Cat. No. 121619, U. S. N. M. Song-do, Korea. Collected byEnsign J. B. Bernadou, U. S. N.) Report of National Museum, 1891.—Hough. Plate oo Hi a. X >a. Ml I-I-oa. z< UJ cco KOREAN COLLECTIONS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 437 Bowl (Koriu-gi-bo-si). Opaque, gray, hard, porcelaueous paste coveredwith a greenish transparent glaze; well crackled. Thrown on awheel; heavy ware. PI. xii, Fig. 3, lower line (commencing at theleft). Height, 2i inches; diametor, 5^ inches. Seonl, Korea. 121618 Collected by Ensign J. B. Bevnadon, U. S. Nnvy. Of the Koriu period. Saucer (Koriu jub-si). Ancient celadon of opaque, porcelaneous,light gray, hard-paste, covered with a thick, vitreous, green crackledglaze, the resulting combination giving a beautiful gray-greencolor, resembling some varieties of jade. PI. xii. Fig. 4, lower line(commencing at the left). Height, 1-]% inches; diameter, 5f inches. Song-dO; Korea. 130885 Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen. This kind of ware is often found at Song-do, the ancient capital of Koriu inthe former dynasty, and this spe
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