Bowl with molded design of fish among waves

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl, small ovoidal; low foot; two silica spur-marks on base (third spur missing).

  Clay: hard, gray, sonorous.

  Glaze: luminous gray-green celadon; crackled.

  Decoration: in molded relief in paste under glaze: four fish leaping among waves.

• Provenance

  To 1917

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]

  From 1917 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 2557, 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 Ceramics of the Koryo Dynasty (May 9, 1993 to August 7, 2011)

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

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

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Gangjin kilns, Jeollanam-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1100s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Gangjin kilns, Jeollanam-do province, Korea

• Topic

  Goryeo period (918 - 1392), Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Fishes, Korean Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)