Ewer of double gourd form; curved spout; grooved curved strap handle with upstanding eyelet; flat base.
Clay: porcellanous, gray; light buff surface on exposed biscuit.
Glaze: grayish-olive celadon; transparent, lustrous, rather thin over most of pot; uneven crackle mostly over lower body and spout, random lines elsewhere; small spot of glaze missing at base of handle and of spout. Glaze wiped off base.
No decoration.
Provenance:
Unknown owners, Seoul [1]
From 1884-1898 to 1907
Dr. Horace N. Allen (1858-1932), Toledo, Ohio, purchased from unknown owners, in Seoul, during 1884-1898 [2]
From 1907 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dr. Horace N. Allen in 1907 [3]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
Notes:
[1] Horace N. Allen acquired his collection in Seoul between 1884 and 1898. See Horace Allen, Copy of a Certified Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient Korean Pottery:
purchased and owned by Horace Newton Allen (Nak Tong [Korea]: Seoul Press, 1901), pg. 7.
[2] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 1606, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Pamphlets S.I. 738 and S.I. 739 for Allen Correspondence, as well as Pamphlet S.I. 740, Original Allen Catalogue, No. 4 (second), pg. 9.
[3] See note 2.
[4] 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
Exhibition History:
The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
Korean Art (March 20, 1982 to 2 April 1984)
Korean Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to October 13, 1978)
Previous custodian or owner:
Dr. Horace N. Allen (1858-1932) (C.L. Freer source)