Medium:

Stoneware with white inlay under celadon glaze

Dimensions:

H x W: 8.7 x 18.6 cm (3 7/16 x 7 5/16 in)

Type:

Furniture and Furnishing

Origin:

possibly Buan kilns, Jeollabuk-do province, Korea

Date:

second half of 13th century

Period:

Goryeo period

Description:

Narrow plate rim with squat, ovoidal coping; four lion-headed feet. Overpainting on underside of base and on rim.

Clay: hard, gray.

Glaze: brilliant grayish-green celadon; crackled. Thin earthy deposits.

Decoration: inlaid in white under glaze, and incised: lotus-petal lappets, clouds.

Provenance:

To 1907

Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1907 [1]

From 1907 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, in 1907 [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. 1600, 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

Exhibition History:

The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)

The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

Untitled Exhibition, Chinese and Korean Ceramics (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)

Early Chinese Pottery and Scultpure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916 (March 6 to October 15, 1916)

Untitled Exhibition, The Japan Society, February 1914 (February 1914)

Previous custodian or owner:

Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

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Goryeo period (918 - 1392)  Search this

green glaze  Search this

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Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1907.794

Restrictions & Rights:

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Related Online Resources:

Google Cultural Institute

Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art

The Story of the Beautiful

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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