Tea bowl stand

Object Details

• Description

  Tea-bowl, flaring, conical. Open cup-shaped stand.

  Clay: hard grayish.

  Glaze: bowl - lustrous blackish-green, pitted; stand - very dark green, more thickly pitted and crackled.

  Spurs: on bowl, traces of four sandy clay spurs on the glazed footrim.

  Contains kiln marks.

• Marks

  Four kiln marks on bowl.

• Provenance

  To 1911

  Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto, to 1911 [1]

  From 1911 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto in 1911 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2153, 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

  Rediscovering Korea’s Past (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

  Korean Ceramics of the Koryo Dynasty (May 9, 1993 to August 7, 2011)

  Korean Art (May 9, 1993 to January 29, 1997)

  Korean Art (December 17, 1984 to June 23, 1986)

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

  Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries (March 2 to 21, 1914)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Y. Fujita and Company (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

  Furniture and Furnishing

• On View

  Freer Gallery 14: Rediscovering Korea's Past

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• Date

  1100s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Fujita

• Place

  Gangjin, Jeolla-do province, Buan kilns, Korea

• Topic

  Goryeo period (918 - 1392), Tea, Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Slip, Korean Art, Black slip, Koryo (Goryeo) black ware

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Furniture, Furnishings

• On View

  Yes