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Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid)

200s–300s CE
(18 BCE–660 CE)
earthenware
Overall: 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1997.188.b
Location: not on view
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Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.

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Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period. Both its gray color and shimmering glaze are the result of the reduction of oxygen in the closed kiln chamber. The pounding technique (tanal in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body, leaving behind a geometric pattern.
Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid)

Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid)

200s–300s CE

Korea, Baekje kingdom (18 BCE–660 CE)

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