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Box with inlaid design of paired cranes and clouds

Description:: Box, small cylindrical, with cover of equal size with the box proper.; Clay: hard, grayish.; Glaze: pale greenish-gray celadon, with faint lilac tints.; Decoration: inlaid in white and black under glaze: medallion of two flying cranes surrounded by geometric borders.

Provenance:: To 1917; Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]; From 1917 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [2]; From 1920; The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 2551, 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.

Exhibition History:: Cranes and Clouds: The Korean Art of Ceramic Inlay (November 5, 2011 to January 3, 2016); Korean Art (December 17, 1984 to June 23, 1986); Korean Art (March 20, 1982 to 2 April 1984); Korean Art (June 4, 1982 to September 23, 1982); Korean Art (July 15, 1981 to September 15, 1981); Korean Art (March 20, 1980 to March 3, 1981); Korean Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to October 13, 1978); Untitled Exhibition, Chinese and Korean Ceramics (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944); Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

Previous custodian or owner:: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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