Medium:

Stoneware with black slip under celadon glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 4.3 × 13.3 cm (1 11/16 × 5 1/4 in)

Style:

Black Goryeo ware

Type:

Furniture and Furnishing

Origin:

Gangjin or Buan kilns, Jeolla-do province, Korea

Date:

first half of 12th century

Period:

Goryeo period

Description:

Tea-bowl, flaring, conical. Open cup-shaped stand.

Clay: hard grayish.

Glaze: bowl - lustrous blackish-green, pitted; stand - very dark green, more thickly pitted and crackled.

Spurs: on bowl, traces of four sandy clay spurs on the glazed footrim.

Contains kiln marks.

Marks:

Four kiln marks on bowl.

Provenance:

To 1911

Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto, to 1911 [1]

From 1911 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto in 1911 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2153, 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:

Rediscovering Korea’s Past (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

Korean Ceramics of the Koryo Dynasty (May 9, 1993 to August 7, 2011)

Korean Art (May 9, 1993 to January 29, 1997)

Korean Art (December 17, 1984 to June 23, 1986)

Korean Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to October 13, 1978)

Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries (March 2 to 21, 1914)

Previous custodian or owner:

Y. Fujita and Company (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

Koryo (Goryeo) black ware  Search this

Goryeo period (918 - 1392)  Search this

tea  Search this

green glaze  Search this

Korea  Search this

stoneware  Search this

slip  Search this

Korean Art  Search this

black slip  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1911.366.2

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

On View:

Freer Gallery 14: Rediscovering Korea's Past

Related Online Resources:

Google Cultural Institute

Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art

See more items in:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3d2aa176d-5a31-414d-97c8-fe437856529a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:fsg_F1911.366.2