Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Deep bowl with walls curving up from foot and expanding gently to everted plain rim. Walls trimmed about 1 cm above foot. Trimmed foot tapering inward to foot rim on exterior. Nearly vertical on interior. Flat base with short firing crack. Ring inside bottom (left by throwing tool) that approximates diameter of foot. Small ring-shaped scar (?) in center bottom. Slightly warped into oval section. Several vertical cracks of varying length in rim.

  Clay: Grayish porcelain

  Glaze: Vessel glazed entirely with clear glaze, slightly bluish tone, satiny texture. Glaze wiped off footrim. Some gravel/coarse sand (from stacking) adhering to glaze at edge of foot.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)

• Origin

  Bunwon kilns, Gwangju city, Gyeonggi-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Place

  Gwangju city, Gyeonggi-do province, Bunwon kilns, Korea

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)