This vessel is a typical buncheong bottle (wheel-thrown stoneware) with an upturned mouth, slender neck, and bulging lower body. Such wares were often decorated with abstract motifs but also with imagery from daily life and nature. The potter covered this whole piece with a thin coat of white clay using a brush before carving stylized lotus petal designs and two fish into the bottle.

Visit this piece now on view in the Korean Art galleries in the Hammer Building, Level 2.