Dish with inlaid decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Dish, with low curving sides, low foot, and three spur marks on base, which show traces of silicate.

  Clay: light gray porcellanous stoneware.

  Glaze: gray-green celadon, low luster, complete coverage. Deterioraion of a large area of one side on outside, partial crackle in some areas, runs. A few dirty inclusions and pine holes on inside, glaze miss (oxidized) on rim.

  Decoration: Inlaid in white slip under the glaze, four spaced lichee clusters, central circular medallion with chrysanthemum. Latter repeated four times on outside. The flower leaves on outside are in black slip. Simple patterned border inside, single and double ring bands on outside.

• Provenance

  To 1980

  Mrs. Elsie I. Kronenburg-Lee, Alexandria, VA, to 1980 [1]

  From 1980

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mrs. Elsie I. Kronenburg-Lee in 1980

  Notes:

  [1] See Freer Gallery of Art Accession List, Collections Management Office. Also, original folder sheet note indicates name of source and location at date of acquisition (see Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Elsie I. Kronenburg-Lee

• Origin

  Gangjin or Buan kilns, Jeolla-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. Elsie I. Kronenburg

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Kronenburg-Lee, Elsie I.

• Place

  Gangjin, Jeolla-do province, Buan kilns, Korea

• Topic

  Goryeo period (918 - 1392), Art, Inlay (process), Chrysanthemum, Green glaze, Stoneware, Korean Art, Ceramics, Flowers

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)