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Jar with Loop Handle

Jar with Loop Handle

200s–300s CE
(18 BCE–660 CE)
earthenware
Overall: 33.8 cm (13 5/16 in.); Outer diameter: 27.4 cm (10 13/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1997.188
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The pounding technique (tanal in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body.

Description

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.
  • ?-1981
    Keum Ja Kang, New York, NY
    1981-1997
    (Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    December 1, 1997-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.188