Stoneware with white and black inlays under celadon glaze
Dimensions:
H x W x D: 4.5 x 8.7 x 8.7 cm (1 3/4 x 3 7/16 x 3 7/16 in)
Type:
Container
Origin:
Gangjin or Buan kilns, Jeolla-do province, Korea
Date:
second half of 13th century
Period:
Goryeo period
Description:
Decorated with flying cranes, stylized clouds on border of rings with dots and 2 registers of frets in white and black on celadon ground.
Marks: dealers sticker and spur marks.
Marks:
Dealer sticker with the number "16" on base. Contains 4 large spurs.
Provenance:
From 1947-1950 to 1991
Mr. Rolf R. Jacoby (died 1989) and Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby (died 2002), Centreville, MD and Washington, DC, acquired by Rolf R. Jacoby in Korea between 1947-1950 [1]
From 1991
Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby in 1991 [2]
Notes:
[1] "This object, along with the others given with it, was acquired by Rolf Jacoby, the donor's late husband, in Korea between 1947 and 1950, while he served as a diplomat" (according to a note by Kate Theimer, November 28, 1995, in the object record).
[2] See note 1.
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)
