Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Small, shallow cup with rounded walls, upright plain rim; low, everted footrim.

  Clay: Stoneware, reddish brown on surface where visible on unglazed lower body and foot.

  Glaze: Jun glaze, underfired and not completely vitrified, therefore appearing opaque, ivory-toned, with wide, fine-line craackle; some small brown pinholes in interior where glaze has pulled away from a speck of dust; irregular thick areas around rim on outside where applications of glaze overlapped.

  Decoration: None.

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Mrs. Maureen R. Jacoby (1927– 2002)

• 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. Although accessioned in 1991, this object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection to the permanent collection on April 18, 1996.

• Origin

  Henan province, China

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Jacoby, Maureen R., Jacoby, Rolf R.

• Place

  China, Henan province

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Art, Jun ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)