Bowl with molded and incised design of hibiscus flowers
Object Details
- Description
- Bowl, conical, flaring; deep foot with four silica spur-marks underneath on base inside footrim. Six notches in rim.
- Clay: dense, sonant.
- Glaze: gray-green celadon; crackled in long lines.
- Decoration: molded and incised in paste under glaze: rosette in bottom; hibiscus flowers and foliage filling sides: single line incised below rim.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 1906, 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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- first half 12th century
- Period
- Goryeo period
- Accession Number
- F1909.17
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with celadon glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7 x 19.8 cm (2 3/4 x 7 13/16 in)
- Origin
- Gangjin or Buan kilns, Jeolla-do province, Korea
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- hibiscus
- Goryeo period (918 - 1392)
- green glaze
- Korea
- stoneware
- Korean Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1909.17
