Medium:

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Dimensions:

H x W: 4.9 x 18.7 cm (1 15/16 x 7 3/8 in)

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Gangjin or Buan kilns, Jeolla-do province, Korea

Date:

12th century

Period:

Goryeo period

Description:

Dish, low, broadly flaring, with notched rim; low foot; three silica spur-marks on base inside footrim.

Clay: hard, sonorous.

Glaze: luminous light grayish-green; crackled.

Decoration: molded and incised in the paste, under glaze, on inside: single large peony blossom, bud and foliage; single line below rim.

Provenance:

To 1909

Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1909 [1]

From 1909 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1909 [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. 1896, 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)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

ceramic  Search this

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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:

F1909.7

Restrictions & Rights:

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Related Online Resources:

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Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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EDAN-URL:

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