Bottle

Object Details

• Description

  Mallet-shaped bottle resting on low, raised footring inset from edge of body. Straight cylindrical body, squared shoulders sloping slightly upwards to meet long neck tapering to round mouth with everted rim. Old silver lacquer repairs to mouth and rim.

  Clay: Porcelain. Fine grains of sand from kiln setting embedded in glazed foot.

  Glaze: Transparent, pale blue-green glaze applied to entire exterior, foot and interior of neck. Deeper color visible on neck and shoulders where glaze pools around base of neck. Network of crazing visible on one side of neck, shoulders and body. Glaze scratched and worn in places; crazing fractures are stained.

• Label

  In the late Joseon period, potters started making cylindrical porcelain bottles like this one in addition to the popular pear-shaped or round forms.

• Provenance

  From 1947-1950 to 1991

  Mr. Rolf R. Jacoby (died 1989) and Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby (died 2002), Centreville, MD and Washington, DC, acquired by Rolf R. Jacoby in Korea between 1947-1950 [1]

  From 1991

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby in 1991 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] "This object, along with the others given with it, was acquired by Rolf Jacoby, the donor's late husband, in Korea between 1947 and 1950, while he served as a diplomat" (according to a note by Kate Theimer, November 28, 1995, in the object record).

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Korean Ceramics (February 4, 1997 to August 7, 2011)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. Rolf R. Jacoby and Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby

  Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby (1927– 2002)

• Origin

  Bunwon kilns, Gyeonggi-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby in memory of Rolf Jacoby

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1800s, 1890s

• Name

  Jacoby, Maureen R., Jacoby, Rolf R.

• Place

  Gyeonggi-do province, Bunwon kilns, Korea

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Joseon period (1392 - 1910), Lacquer repair, Pale blue glaze, Lacquer, Korean Art, Ceramics, Bunwon ware

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)