Tea bowl with slip-inlaid decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Tea bowl, irregular shape, heavy foot, lacquer repairs.

  Clay: coarse stoneware, fired blackish brown.

  Glaze: thick greenish gray, mottled with brown outside. Foot and footrim glazed.

  Decoration: in slip under glaze, inside only. Stamped and combed motifs.

  Spurs: four large refractory-clay spurs on footrim.

• Label

  This bowl incorporates features of earlier tableware bowls made in Korea, but its size and shape suggest that it was made at a southeastern Korean kiln for export to Japan for use as a tea bowl.

• Provenance

  To 1904

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1904 [1]

  From 1904 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY,

  in 1904 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note.

  Also see Original Pottery List, L. 1291, 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

  Korean Tea Bowls for Japan (July 1, 2012 to August 20, 2013)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Gyeongsangnam-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1600s, 1650s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Gyeongsangnam-do province, Korea

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Inlay (process), Joseon period (1392 - 1910), Clear glaze, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)