Vas, Flaska i brons, Vase, Bottle

Den här bronsflaskan har en utsvängd mynning och en päronformad bottentung kropp på fot. En serie upphöjda, ristade linjer går runt hela kärlet från halsen ner till basen. Ristade linjer syns också på mynningens insida. På ena sidan syns en bit som lagats under framställningen. Flaskan är antagligen svarvad i flera delar som sedan lötts samman. Skarvarna har täckts med dekorativa linjer. Foten och basen är tillverkade separat och har sedan fästs vid kroppen, troligtvis även de genom lödning. Flaskan är nästan helt täckt av grönblå ärg.

Flaskor av den här typen tillverkades både i metall och keramik. Metallvarianten antas ha används till vatten vid buddistiska ritualer eller som vin och vattenflaskor i överklasshem under Goryeo (918-1392).

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This bronze bottle has a flaring mouth and a pear-shaped bottom-heavy body on a foot. A series of raised and incised lines encircle the whole vessel from the neck to the bottom. Incised lines can also be seen on the interior surface of the mouth. On one side, there is a patch that was mended during the production. The bottle was probably turned on a lathe, in several pieces, and soldered together. The joint lines were covered with decorative lines. The foot and base were made separately and attached, probably soldered, to the body of the vessel. The bottle is almost entirely covered in a bluish-green patina.

Bottles of this shape were produced in metal and ceramics. The metal version is assumed to have been used in Buddhist rituals for holding and pouring water or as wine or water bottles in households of the Goryeo elite (Goryeo dynasty: 918-1392).

Anni Kalbak's collection (purchased)
Anni Kalbak (born Anni Steinert Sørensen) was the wife of Dr Kaj Algot Kalbak (1909–1992), a Danish medical doctor, who worked as chief physician and head of the Department for Clinical Microbiology at the National Medical Center in Seoul from 1958 to 1962. The establishment of the National Medical centre (NMC) was a joint medical project between the Scandinavian countries, the UNKRA (United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency) and the Korean government. The Swedish contribution to the NMC was a continuation of the Swedish Red Cross Hospital in Busan that was operated during and after the Korean war (1950–1958). While living in Korea, Dr Kalbak built a collection of over 500 objects, including archaeological and ethnographic material and art objects, from a period spanning from the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE) to the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) that he presumably purchased from antique shops. It can be assumed that Anni Kalbak acquired objects for her own collection during this time, perhaps from the same shops. After returning to Denmark, Dr Kalbak donated his collection to the National Museum of Denmark. Anni Kalbak’s collection of more than 90 objects was purchased by the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in 1987. Her collection includes bronze objects from the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), a great variety of ceramic objects from the Three Kingdoms period, and the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties, and a collection of over 40 paintings from the Joseon dynasty. Especially the acquisition of the painting collection held significance for the Museum as there were not many Korean paintings in the collection up to that time.

안니 칼박(Anni Kalbak) 소장 (구입)
안니 칼박은 1958년부터 1962년까지 서울에 위치한 국립중앙의료원에서 근무했던 덴마크인 의사 카이 알고트 칼박 (1909-1992) 박사의 아내이다. 국립중앙의료원은 스칸디나비아의 스웨덴, 덴마크, 노르웨이 3국과 국제연합한국재건단 그리고 한국 정부가 협력하여 설치 및 운영한 공공의료원이다. 스웨덴은 한국전쟁 기간 동안 그리고 그 이후에 부산에 위치한 스웨덴 적십자 야전병원을 운영한 것의 연장선상에서 국립중앙의료원에 기여한 것이었다. 한국에 거주하면서 칼박 박사는 삼국시대부터 조선시대까지 다양한 연대를 아우르는 고고학적 그리고 민족지학적 자료와 예술품을 포함하여 500여 점의 유물을 수집했는데, 이들은 골동품점에서 구입했을 것으로 추정된다. 안니 칼박도 같은 시기에 동일한 골동품점으로부터 개별적으로 유물들을 입수했을 것으로 짐작된다. 덴마크로 귀국한 후, 칼박 박사는 수집품들을 덴마크국립박물관에 기증했다. 안니 칼박의 90여 점의 수집품은 1987년 동아시아박물관에서 구입했는데, 여기에는 고려시대 청동 유물, 삼국, 고려, 조선시대에 걸친 다양한 도자기 유물과 조선시대 회화 40여 점이 포함되어 있다. 특히 이 컬렉션의 입수는 그 당시 동 박물관에서 소장품이 많지 않던 한국 회화 부문의 공백을 메우는 중요한 계기가 되었다.