Location

not on view

Fun Fact

This pottery vessel served to contain cremated remains, indicating the popularity of Buddhist mortuary practice in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.

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 built on hillsides.

Provenance

1981-1997

(Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

March 4, 1997-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Pottery from Ancient Korea: Clay Art for Life and Death [한국고대의토기 : 흙・예술・삶과 죽음]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997.

Gaya Tombs [가야 무덤]. Changwon: Gaya National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, 2007.

Pak, Cheon-su. Gaya togi: gayaui yeoksawa munhwa [가야 토기: 가야의 역사와 문화]. Gyeonggi-do, Gwacheon: Chininjin, 2010.

Jeong, Dong-rak and Jeong-mi Son. "Daegaya Earthenware Kilns in Goryeong Region: Centering on the Remains of Goryeong Songnim-ri Earthenware Kilns [고령지역의 대가야 토기가마: 고령 송림리 토기가마 유적의 소개를 중심으로]" Sogang Journal of Early Korean History 14 (August 2013): 157–204. www.dbpia.co.kr

Kim, Yun-jeong and 8 others. Hangung doja sajeon [한국 도자 사전]. Seoul: Gyeongin munhwasa, 2015.

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. 44

Exhibition history

Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 29-October 24, 2021).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lidded Jar with Four Horn Lugs

뚜껑있는 토기 호 (有蓋土器壺)

Korea, Kaya period

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