A decorated, white porcelain box-shaped container
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A horizontal, six sided rectangular box in white porcelain is embellished with blue painted designs on each side. The top panel has, at one edge, a small, open-mouthed frog that serves as an opening into the container. Opposite this, at the top of a side panel, a second small, white porcelain frog similarly acts as a spout. Each panel features a painting of either flowering branches or irregularly shaped rocks. Each design is framed by thin lines that trace the panel’s edges.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.621
Title
Water Dropper with Two Spouts, Each in the Form of a Crouching Frog, and with Plum and Rock Decor
Classification
Artists' Tools
Work Type
water dropper
Date
late 18th-early 19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
Period
Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
Culture
Korean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/201156

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with appliqué molded spouts and with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.
Dimensions
H. 6.9 x W. 10.3 x D. 7.8 cm (2 11/16 x 4 1/16 x 3 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gregory and Maria C. Henderson, Medford, MA (by 1963-1988), inherited; by Maria C. Henderson, Medford, MA (1988-1991), partial gift and partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.

Footnotes:
1. Gregory Henderson (1922-1988)
2. Maria C. Henderson (?-2007)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.621
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), p. 58, no. 133

Exhibition History

  • Cultivating Virtue: Botanical Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/08/2006 - 04/08/2007
  • Re-View: S228-230 Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/31/2008 - 06/01/2013
  • Cultivating Virtue: Botanical Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/2012 - 06/01/2013
  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 11/29/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/01/2018 - 12/07/2018

Verification Level

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