Two Korean celadon-glazed bowls, Goryeo Dynasty, 12th/13th century.
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Finely potted with deep, rounded sides rising to a slighly inverted rim, glazed in a celadon glaze. Diameter 13 cm. The other bowl is robustly potted with rounded sides, the interior moulded with leafy stems, and is covered overall with a glaze of soft celadon-green colour. Diameter 14.5 cm.
One restored. Crack, chip.
Provenance
From the Collection of Johan Almqvist (1940-2024). Johan spent his early years in various countries and learned many languages thanks to his father, Karl Fredrik Almqvist (1906-1982), who was a Swedish diplomat. Johan had a passion for art and travel early on. In the early 1960s, as one of his first jobs as a free-lance journalist, he traveled to the Middle East where his interest in Persian ceramics and collecting started.
He then came to be based in Japan, still as a free-lance journalist for all the major Scandinavian Newspapers as well as Springer (Die Welt and Zeitung), Swedish Television, Svensk Radio and Radio Luxembourg. He covered a large part of Asia, including The Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam.
1974 he was hired by Beijer Invest to be based in Japan.