Bowl with stamped and incised decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl with alternating bands of stamped and incised decoration, inlaid with white slip, on both interior and exterior. Body with high sides, wide mouth, and everted lip rests on small high foot. Foot quickly trimmed leaving ridges in hollow.

  Clay: Dark gray stoneware.

  Glaze: Thin, colorless glaze applied to interior, exterior and foot. Glaze has worn away, possibly due to burial. Rust-colored patches present on sides and base as well as on foot.

  Decoration: The interior well features a central full-face chrysanthemum surrounded by radiating lines of "rope-curtain" pattern ending in butterfiles, leaning slightly clockwise and irregularly spaced. An incised triple-line band separates the center motif from a narrow band of lotus leaves whose petal tips point outward, touching the inner of two incised lines. Tightly-spaced rope-curtain pattern fills the cavetto, defined at the top by triple incised lines beneath a border of incised grass pattern just under the rim. The exterior features the rope-curtain pattern bordered on each side by incised lines.

• 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)

  Korean Ceramics of the Koryo Dynasty (May 9, 1993 to August 7, 2011)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby (1927– 2002)

• Origin

  Korea

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1400s

• Name

  Jacoby, Maureen R., Jacoby, Rolf R.

• Place

  Korea

• Topic

  Art, Inlay (process), Buncheong ware, Joseon period (1392 - 1910), Clear glaze, Chrysanthemum, Stoneware, Korean Art, Ceramics, Lotus

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)