Object Details
- Description
- Vase (maebyong) heavily potted with straight-sided neck, high bulging shoulder, tapering to medium narrow waist, beveled in at foot; foot rim edge rough and unglazed; fire-crack (shrinkage) runs around base, all the way through in one section and through the foot on one side. Shape is a litle irregular, the neck having slumped into the shoulder slightly on one side. On base a large patch of dull, rough, whitish ceramic material appears to be on top of the glaze, and some of the same material roughens the unglazed foot rim. This may result from contact with supporting material during firing.
- Clay: medium coarse, opaquish, off-white porcelain. Resonant.
- Glaze: transparent, feldspathic with green-blue tint especially apparent where it has collected thickly. In some spots (only in blue areas) where both paint and glaze have gone, possibly from broken blisters, the revealed biscuit has oxidized slightly to a deep buff. A stained crackle is on one side of neck.
- Decoration: two vigorous four-clawed dragons amid clusters of conventionalized clouds. Double lines around base and lip. Painted in underglaze cobalt blue line and wash in strong lively style. The wash is placed well within the contour of the clouds, leaving a white border around each form. The blue varies from a smokey light shade to a dark almost blackish blue with much variation in concentration.
- Provenance
- To 1974
- Oriental Art, Benjamin J. Stein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [1]
- From 1974
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Oriental Art, Benjamin J. Stein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1974
- Notes:
- [1] See Freer Gallery of Art Accession List, Collections Management Office. Also, original folder sheet note indicates name of source and location at date of acquisition (see Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record).
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Korean Art (June 4, 1982 to September 23, 1982)
- Korean Art (July 15, 1981 to September 15, 1981)
- A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)
- Korean Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to October 13, 1978)
- Korean Art (June 24, 1977 to April 8, 1978)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Oriental Art, Benjamin J. Stein
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 19th century
- Period
- Joseon period
- Accession Number
- F1975.9
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under transparent, colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 52 x 33.3 cm (20 1/2 x 13 1/8 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
- ceramic
- dragon
- Bunwon ware
- Joseon period (1392 - 1910)
- cobalt pigment
- Korea
- porcelain
- clear glaze
- Korean Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1975.9
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye33f32cb77-3295-48e7-9804-4ef5e5bfe162
