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Description:: Black Koryo (or iron-black ware); Vase; maebyong shape. Slight restoration on lip. Three spur marks. Foot and base unglazed.; Clay: buff-colored, fine-grained, soft.; Glaze: Celadon over underglaze iron slip.; Decoration: spray of ginseng leaves on two sides, lightly incised and brushed with white slip through iron slip.; Spurs: shadows of three clay spurs around unglazed footrim.

Provenance:: To 1909; Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1909 [1]; From 1909 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1909 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 1920, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.; [2] See note 1.; [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Exhibition History:: The Power to See Beauty (October 14, 2017 to September 6, 2022); Cranes and Clouds: The Korean Art of Ceramic Inlay (November 5, 2011 to January 3, 2016); Korean Ceramics of the Koryo Dynasty (May 9, 1993 to August 7, 2011); Korean Art (May 9, 1993 to January 29, 1997); Korean Art (June 4, 1982 to September 23, 1982); Korean Art (July 15, 1981 to September 15, 1981); Korean Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to October 13, 1978); Korean Art (June 19, 1969 to November 10, 1976); Korean Art (November 2, 1959 to November 22, 1971); Untitled Exhibition, Korean Art, 1958 (July 10, 1958 to April 15, 1959); Untitled Exhibition, Korean Ceramics with Korean and Japanese Paintings (February 15, 1955 to April 13, 1955); Untitled Exhibition, East Asian Ceramics and Paintings, East Corridor (January 8, 1947 to ---); Untitled Exhibition, The Japan Society, February 1914 (February 1914)