H x W x D: 26.5 x 17 x 17 cm (10 7/16 x 6 11/16 x 6 11/16 in)
Style:
Bunwon ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Bunwon kilns, Gwangju city, Gyeonggi-do province, Korea
Date:
late 18th-19th century
Period:
Joseon period
Description:
Bottle-vase, elongated neck tapers from low wide body on broad base, low foot - the typical Korean Yi wine-bottle shape. Lower part of neck slightly flattened, as if accidentally compressed before firing.
Clay: white porcelain
Glaze: clear, feldspathic, Ch'ing-pai type (aqua tint), medium gloss, a few original flaws and impurity inclusions. As far as could be seen, the inside in unglazed beyong about two inches into the neck. Bearing edge of foot unglazed.
Decoration: none.
Provenance:
To 1980
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Berger, Washington, DC collected by Ambassador Samuel D. Berger (1911-1980) [1]
1980
Estate of Samuel D. Berger, Washington, DC [2]
1980
Graenum and Emma Berger, New York, and Mrs. Samuel D. Berger, Washington, DC [3]
From 1980
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Graenum and Emma Berger and Mrs. Samuel D. Berger, May 1980 [4]
Notes:
[1] See correspondence (copy in object file) between the Freer Gallery and Mr. Graenum Berger, brother of Mr. Samuel D. Berger, and Mrs. Elizabeth L. Berger, widow of Mr. Samuel D. Berger; a letter dated on May 22, 1980 from the Freer Gallery to Mr. Graenum Berger in particular states that the object, along with other two Korean pieces also offered as gift at the same time (F1980.187 and F1980.188), was from the estate of late Mr. Samuel Berger (1911-1980).
A receipt issued on March 6, 1980 indicates that these Korean objects (F1980.186, F1980.187, and F1980.188) were delivered from the residence of Mrs. Samuel D. Berger in Washington DC to the Freer Gallery as gift.
Samuel D. Berger was a U.S. Ambassador to South Korea from 1961 and resided there for about four years until 1964.
