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The motif seen here of cranes flying in stylised clouds was very popular on celadon wares of this period. The bottle is likely to have contained perfumed oil.","physicalDescription":"The oil bottle is of a flattened globular form with white and black inlaid decoration and covered with a celadon glaze. The upper body is adorned with four inlaid cranes spaced evenly, in flight among clouds. Round the foot is a border of lotus petals. 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Three celadon cosmetic oil bottles\r\nLate 12th century to early 14th century\r\nGoryeo dynasty (918–1392)\r\nCosmetic oil bottles made of stoneware were used as early as the Unified Silla period (676–935). During the Goryeo dynasty, these bottles were made of celadon and decorated with a variety of techniques such as iron-brown underglazes, incisions or inlays. Smaller bottles kept perfumed oil and oils for mixing into pigments for makeup, while the larger bottles stored hair oils. These oils were often pressed from apricot stones, castor seeds, and rice bran.\r\nPlain, inlaid celadon and celadon with iron\r\nbrown underglaze\r\nMuseum no. C.560-1918, C.521-1918 given by Mr Aubrey Le Blond\r\nMuseum nos. 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