Long-necked bottle with incised and inlaid decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Long-necked bottle. Globular body, tall tubular neck; small projecting eyelet. Neck restored at root. Traces of clay spurs around low footrim.

  Clay: hard, gray.

  Glaze: luminous grayish-green celadon; light crackle.

  Decoration: incised in paste, inlaid in black and white under glaze. Key-fret band around rim. Cloud-lappet band around shoulder at neck. Two sprays each of peony and chrysanthemum, alternating. Overlapping lotus petals, with double outlines around base.

• Provenance

  To 1908

  Yamanaka and Company, to 1908 [1]

  From 1908 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka and Company in 1908 [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. 1685, 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 Art (March 20, 1980 to March 3, 1981)

  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

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Gangjin, Jeolla-do province, Buan kilns, Korea

• Topic

  Art, Inlay (process), Stoneware, Korean Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Lotus, Goryeo period (918 - 1392), Charles Lang Freer collection, Peony, Chrysanthemum, White slip, Green glaze

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)