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Dish

청자 접시 [靑磁楪子]

1100s–1200s

Korea, Goryeo dynasty

(918–1392)
Medium
pottery
Measurements
Diameter: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.); Overall: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John L. Severance 1921.627
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On the base of this dish, three spur marks made of bits of clay remain visible.

Description

Celadons wares used for everyday such as this dish were among the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918–1392). Furnishing tombs with an elaborate assemblage of objects was believed to honor and comfort the newly dead. Generally, Goryeo tombs were left untouched until the late 1800s. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists competitively excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period, and soon began making tomb goods available for Japanese and Western collectors.
A sea-green ceramic dish flares into a wide, shallow basin, its walls sloping steeply from a low, circular base. A thin, incised ring traces the inner rim. The smooth, muted glaze is fractured by a vertical crack slicing down the left wall. Small chips and a jagged notch indent the rim, their weathered edges catching the light and highlighting the vessel's simple, elegant silhouette.

Dish

1100s–1200s

Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)

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