- Provenance
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To 1899
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1899 [1]From 1899 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 88, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Yamanaka and Co. (C.L. Freer source) 1917 - 1965
- Description
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Bottle, pear-shaped; flaring mouth with gold lacquer repair; low, barely defined foot. Body surface under glaze roughly and irregularly trimmed and finished; a number of fissures, some through glaze surface.
Clay: porcelaneous, gray; biscuit surface iron-reddish where exposed during firing.
Glaze: transparent, glossy, pale celadon, uneven flow, fine mesh crackle, covers foot and part of base which have gritty kiln material adhering.
Decoration: incised and inlaid with white slip under glaze. Lotus petal band base of neck, two simple willow trees and a lotus flower on body.
- Label
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In the Joseon period, pear-shaped bottles like this one largely replaced the broad-shouldered bottles more typical of the Goryeo dynasty. Compared to Goryeo inlay, the lotus flowers and willow tree sketched here are extremely simplified, leaving much of the surface plain.
- Published References
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- Louise Allison Cort. Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art. .
- Roger Goepper. Treasures from Korea: Art Through 5000 Years. Exh. cat. London. cat. 178.
- Collection Area(s)
- Korean Art
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