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Dish with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design

Dish with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design

1200s
(918–1392)
Diameter of mouth: 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Educational Purchase Fund 1924.135
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

On the base of this tea bowl, three small spur marks made of bits of clay remain visible, indicating an individual protective casing of fire clay (saggar).

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 19th century. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists competitively excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period, and these wares soon became available for Japanese and Western collectors.
  • Purchased from the W. R. Warner Collection.
    1924–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Warner, Lorraine D’O. “Korean Grave Pottery of the Korai Dynasty.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 3 (April 1919): 46–58. Mentioned: P. 46; Reproduced: P. 48, fig.II www.jstor.org
    Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
    Lee, Young-hee. "The Study on Techniques and their Interrelations among Craft Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 공예기법 연구 상호관련성을 중심으로]." Misulsa hakbo 22 (2004): 133-170. www.dbpia.co.kr
    Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.
    Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon [高麗青磁 : ヒスイのきらめき]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka: Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, 2018.
    Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 65
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1924.135