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Lidded Jar with Four Horn Lugs

Lidded Jar with Four Horn Lugs

200s–400s CE
(42–562 CE)
earthenware
Overall: 24.6 cm (9 11/16 in.); Outer diameter: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1997.8
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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

Description

Early earthenware from the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668) became widely utilized as agriculture and religion grew to be essential elements in sustaining society and its systems. The clay jars of different sizes and shapes on display were made for the following purposes: some were used to store harvested grains and seeds, some to preserve cremated remains, and some to serve offerings in rituals.
  • 1981-1997
    (Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    March 4, 1997-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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