Stand: cup-shaped, the ovoidal cup resting in a broad, foliated plate which has a high spreading foot with four silica spur-marks underneath. Two chips in rim.
Clay: hard, sonant, gray.
Glaze: lustrous grayish-green.
Decoration: incised in paste under glaze, defining six overlapping petals.
Spurs: four silica spur-marks on footring.
Provenance:
To 1912
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1912 [1]
From 1912 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1912 [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. 2365, 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:
Cranes and Clouds: The Korean Art of Ceramic Inlay (November 5, 2011 to January 3, 2016)
Korean Ceramics of the Koryo Dynasty (May 9, 1993 to August 7, 2011)
Korean Art (May 9, 1993 to January 29, 1997)
Korean Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to October 13, 1978)
Previous custodian or owner:
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
