Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl; celadon, base slightly recessed, imperfectly glazed; spur marks.

  Clay: gray porcellanous stoneware.

  Glaze: gray-green celadon, low lustre, a buff area of oxidization. Several rim cracks.

  Decoration: two lightly incised parrot-like birds with flowing plumage around inside.

• Provenance

  To 1981

  Robert T. Curran, Washington, DC, to 1981 [1]

  From 1981

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Robert T. Curran in 1981

  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

  Robert T. Curran

• Origin

  Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Robert T. Curran in memory of Jean A. and Frances R. Curran

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1100s

• Name

  Curran, Robert T.

• Place

  Korea

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)