Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Description: Wide shallow bowl, walls rounding inward to everted plain rim, resting on short, trimmed foot. Base of vessel trimmed to widest diameter of body. Trimmed interior of foot slightly domed.

  Clay: Coarse, sandy, grayish-brown stoneware with many white granules (color visible only in one place in vessel interior where slip popped off), appearing greenish-brown under glaze. Several small air bubbles in wall. One vertical hairline crack below rim.

  Glaze: Dipped into white slip, which covers interior and exterior wall down to widest diameter of body. Small area of crawling in bottom center caused by too much moisture and thick slip. One trail of slip partially wiped off. Slip has popped off in two places in interior and in several places around edge of slip coating on exterior. Clear glaze covering entire vesel, including footrim. Footrim bears scars of five sandy refractory clay wads (ground down) used for stacking; other small fragments of wads adhere inside and outside foot. Glaze crackled, stained on interior.

• Provenance

  To 1962

  Pak Hyo-sik, Korea, to 1962 [1]

  From 1962 to 1996

  Mr. Gregory Henderson (died 1988) and Mrs. Maria Henderson (died 2007), West Medford, MA, purchased from Pak Hyo-sik, in Korea, in 1962 [2]

  From 1996

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mrs. Maria Henderson in 1996 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Mr. and Mrs. Henderson acquired this object in Korea from Pak Hyo-sik whilst they were living in Seoul (according to an undated note in the object record). See also, Curatorial Remark 1, Louise A. Cort, August 27, 1996, in the object record, as well as Curatorial Remark 5 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See Freer Gallery of Art Accession List, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Maria Henderson (died 2007)

• Origin

  Undae-ri kilns, Jeollanam-do province, Korea

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1550s

• Name

  Henderson, Maria ("Maia")

• Place

  Undae-ri kilns, Jeollanam-do province, Korea

• Topic

  Art, Buncheong ware, Joseon period (1392 - 1910), Clear glaze, Stoneware, White glaze, Korean Art

• Culture

  Koreans

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)