Bottle with inlaid design of willow trees and reeds

Object Details

• Description

  Vase, maebyong form; small silver-rimmed mouth replacing broken neck; flat basal ring; kiln-sand attachments.

  Clay: dense, heavily molded.

  Glaze: greenish-gray celadon, with large areas of brownish discoloration; crackled. Base unglazed.

  Decoration: inlaid in white and black slip under glaze, stamped and freehand decor: overlapping lotus-petal and cloud-lappet bands around shoulder; two large willow trees alternating with grasses.

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Provenance

  To 1909

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1909 [1]

  From 1909 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1909 [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. 1916, 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.

• Origin

  Jeollanam-do, Chungcheongnam-do, or Gyeonggi-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Gyeonggi-do province, Chungcheongnam-do, Jeollanam-do, Korea

• Topic

  Goryeo period (918 - 1392), Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Korean Art

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)