Bottle with floral design, late 15th century, Unknown Korean, 11 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 6 9/16 in. ( × × cm), Buncheong ware; earthenware with iron-brown underglaze, Korea, 15th century, This Buncheong bottle features a painterly design of peony leaves brushed onto the clay in iron-brown pigment, a style associated with the kilns of sacred Mount Gyeryong near Hakbong-ri, west of the city of Daejeon. When the early rulers of the Yi dynasty rejected Buddhism in favor of Confucianism, many Buddhist monks were forced to return to secular life. These former monks of Gyeryong set up kilns

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