Cooking pot with two handles

Object Details

• Description

  Vat with two projecting rod-like handles.

  Swollen cylindrical shape with wide mouth and flat base. Short everted rim rising directly from shoulder, ending in flattened vertical edge with slightly concave surface. Exterior surface densely covered with pattern of coarse rectangular lattice produced by pattern carved on paddle used in manufacturing process. Lattice aligned approximately vertically and horizontally on upper two-thirds of body, diagonally on lower one-third (no paddle marks on base). Single horizontal line incised around body at meeting point of the two pattern arrangements; handles attached opposite one another just above the incised line. Exterior surface gently faceted as result of paddling process. Interior plain.

  Clay: soft light red earthenware. Adhesions of earth in textured surface.

  Glaze: none.

• Provenance

  From about 1935-1940

  Private collection, Japan, from about 1935-1940 [1]

  To 1986

  Mrs. Keum Ja Kang, Frankfurt, Germany, purchased from a private collector in Japan [2]

  From 1986

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mrs. Keum Ja Kang, Frankfurt, on May 12, 1986 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Invoice issued by Mrs. Keum Ja Kang to the Freer Gallery of Art on May 12, 1986, copy in object file. In the invoice, Mrs. Keum-Ja Kang indicates that she purchased this jar, along with two other Korean ancient jars, "in Japan from a private collector who claimed the fact that his parents had bought the three Korean pots [F1986.24, F1986.25, and one jar that was not ultimately purchased by the Freer and returned to the vendor] in Japan during the period of 1935-1940." The invoice does not indicate the date of acquisition of the vessel by Mrs. Kang.

  [2] See Invoice cited in note 1.

  [3] See Invoice cited in note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Keum-Ja Kang

• Origin

  Gyeongsang-do or Jeolla-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  300s

• Name

  Kang, Keum-Ja

• Place

  Jeolla-do province, Gyeongsang-do, Korea

• Topic

  Unglazed, Art, Gimhae ware, Pottery, Korean Art, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE - 676 CE)

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)