Jar with inlaid design of three phoenixes

Object Details

• Description

  Jar, globular; slight basal ring; six spur marks and attachments of kiln slag. Fire crack in side.

  Clay: hard, dense, sonant.

  Glaze: grayish-green celadon with large areas of discoloration and thin earth deposits.

  Decoration: inlaid in white and black under glaze; three phoenixes with tails curled into circles, alternating with three small peony sprays.

• Provenance

  To 1907

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1907 [1]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, in 1907 [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. 1600, 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

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)

  The Power to See Beauty (October 14, 2017 to September 6, 2022)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

  Korean Art (March 20, 1980 to March 3, 1981)

  Korean Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to October 13, 1978)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese and Korean Ceramics (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)

  Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

  Early Chinese Pottery and Scultpure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916 (March 6 to October 15, 1916)

  Untitled Exhibition, The Japan Society, February 1914 (February 1914)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Gangjin or Buan kilns, Jeolla-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Gangjin, Jeolla-do province, Buan kilns, Korea

• Topic

  Goryeo period (918 - 1392), Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Inlay (process), Animals, Peony, Green glaze, Stoneware, Korean Art, Birds, Ceramics

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes