Object Details
- Description
- Jar of globular form with high straight neck and low foot.
- Clay: moderately coarse white porcelain, fired reddish on the footrim.
- Glaze: transparent, slightly bluish, uneven in some places, and with areas of grit.
- Decoration: underglaze blue trefoils around shoulder; main area with four circles: two with cranes among clouds and two with tortoises in waves; single line around foot.
- Wooden box.
- Provenance
- From at least 1969 to 1970
- Daisho Commercial & Industrial Co., Ltd, Tokyo, from at least February 12, 1969 [1]
- From 1970
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Daisho Commercial & Industrial Co., Ltd., March 16, 1970 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See correspondence dated February 12, 1969, authorizing Mr. Yoshinobu Daisho to ship the object, along with two other objects, to the Freer Gallery, copy in object file.
- A receipt, dated May 13, 1969, confirms the delivery of the objects to the Freer Gallery for the consideration for purchase, copy in object file.
- [2] See Invoice issued by the Daisho Commercial & Industrial Co., Ltd, dated March 16, 1970, copy in object file.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Korean Ceramics (February 4, 1997 to August 7, 2011)
- Korean Art (December 17, 1984 to June 23, 1986)
- Korean Art (March 20, 1982 to 2 April 1984)
- Korean Art (June 4, 1982 to September 23, 1982)
- Korean Art (July 15, 1981 to September 15, 1981)
- Korean Art (June 24, 1977 to April 8, 1978)
- Korean Art (June 19, 1969 to November 10, 1976)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Daisho Commercial & Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 19th century
- Period
- Joseon period
- Accession Number
- F1970.6a-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under transparent, colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 30.5 x 31.8 cm (12 x 12 1/2 in)
- Style
- Bunwon ware
- Origin
- Bunwon kilns, Gwangju city, Gyeonggi-do province, Korea
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- crane
- Bunwon ware
- Joseon period (1392 - 1910)
- cobalt pigment
- Korea
- porcelain
- clear glaze
- Korean Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1970.6a-c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3eedcfef5-d271-48b6-a8ec-8bbda221cf4f
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