Bowl with inlaid design of willow trees, ducks, and grass

Object Details

• Description

  Broad shallow; low heavy foot; gold lacquer repairs. Sandy deposits on foot.

  Clay: hard, coarse, resonant, heavily blistered.

  Glaze: dark greenish-gray, pitted and fissured, underfired.

  Decoration: Stamped and incised, inlaid in white and black under glaze: inside, two willow trees and two clumps of grasses, alternating with simming ducks. Stamped cloud-lappet ring around bottom, outside two concentric rings. Three below rim. Outside, two pairs of lines.

• Provenance

  To 1898

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]

  From 1898 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [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. 559, 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

  Rediscovering Korea’s Past (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 14: Rediscovering Korea's Past

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Korea

• Topic

  Goryeo period (918 - 1392), Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Inlay (process), Lacquer repair, Green glaze, Stoneware, Lacquer, Korean Art, Ceramics, Ducks

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes