Stoneware with black and white inlays under celadon glaze; gold lacquer repair
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 7.2 × 19.2 cm (2 13/16 × 7 9/16 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Korea
Date:
second half of 14th century
Period:
Goryeo period
Description:
Broad shallow; low heavy foot; gold lacquer repairs. Sandy deposits on foot.
Clay: hard, coarse, resonant, heavily blistered.
Glaze: dark greenish-gray, pitted and fissured, underfired.
Decoration: Stamped and incised, inlaid in white and black under glaze: inside, two willow trees and two clumps of grasses, alternating with simming ducks. Stamped cloud-lappet ring around bottom, outside two concentric rings. Three below rim. Outside, two pairs of lines.
Provenance:
To 1898
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]
From 1898 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 559, 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.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Previous custodian or owner:
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
