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Fragment of a Bottle, last half of 15th century. Buncheong ware, stoneware with underglaze white slip and iron painting, 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 9 5/16 in. (18.4 x 8.3 x 23.7 cm). The Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Collection, 2004.28.108. Creative Commons-BY.
The decorators of Buncheong ceramics likely completed hundreds of drawings each day. Despite that, the best underglaze-iron decorations have a spontaneity and economy of means that reveal the hand of a master. This fragment, with its charming image of a fish, came from a vessel type common in the early Joseon. Known as barrel bottles, these horizontally oriented vessels were used for the storage of wine.