https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/75791/fullBowl on Foot Ring[com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@17218]com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@17218Stoneware, celadon blue-green glaze, incised decorationThis large drinking bowl has a wide mouth and side-walls curving continously from the base with medium high foot rim. The foot rim and shallow base plate are glazed, and traces of grit are on the foot rim. The flat foot with round recessed zone within are common to the type of foot seen in Chinese Yueh ware and early Koryo celadons, as are the three distinct spur marks and lumps still adhering to the foot rim. Inside the bowl are incised with a fine point two flying parrots on opposite side-walls. They have turtle-like heads and long flowing tails framed by several long streaky lines. This simple motif was often borrowed by early Koryo potters from Chinese Yueh examples and became a rather conventionalized design. It seems that this type of bird is a descendant of the phoenix which appears in so much Chinese art, which, in turn, is the depiction of the 'sun-bird' of early Eastern mythology. A single incised line is drawn around the interior wall near the rim. The exterior is plain. The bowl is somewhat thick and heavy, and the crackled glaze is somewhat milky. These characteristics also are common to most celadons from the early part of the Koryo Dynasty.com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@61https://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/24434/rdf