Unglaze stoneware with traces of natural ash glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 5.5 × 12.5 cm (2 3/16 × 4 15/16 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Korea
Date:
first half 6th century
Period:
Three Kingdoms period
Description:
Jar (F1975.11.1), pedestal foot, with non-original cover (F1975.11.2). Vessel itself is wheel-thrown with prominent finger ridges, a thin straight-sided neck, rounded base set in flaring foot which has two rows of square-cut perforations, eight each, alternating in position. Cover is low-domed with a flaring flat-top knob. Six chips on edge of neck, three of which appear to be old; cover chipped on edge, knob and inside flange.
Clay: fine, dark-gray stoneware.
Glaze: vestiges of "natural" ash glaze on shoulder and upper half of body, also inside cover.
Decoration: none.
Provenance:
To 1974
Gilpin House, Alexandria, VA, to 1974 [2]
From 1974
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Gilpin House in 1974
Notes:
[1] See Freer Gallery of Art Accession List, Collections Management Office. Also, original folder sheet note indicates name of source and location at date of acquisition (see Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record).
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)
Previous custodian or owner:
Gilpin House
Topic:
Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE - 676 CE) Search this
