Long-necked bottle with incised and inlaid decoration
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Period
late 12th-early 13th century -
Geography
Gangjin or Buan kilns, Jeolla-do province, Korea -
Material
Stoneware with white and black inlays under celadon glaze -
Dimension
H x W x D: 32.8 x 15.5 x 15 cm (12 15/16 x 6 1/8 x 5 7/8 in) -
Accession Number
F1908.19 -
EDAN ID
edanmdm:fsg_F1908.19
Object Details
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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 1908Yamanaka and Company, to 1908 [1]From 1908 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka and Company in 1908 [2]From 1920Freer 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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