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Lidded Vessel with Loop Handles

Lidded Vessel with Loop Handles

57 BCE–668 CE
(57 BCE–668 CE)
earthenware, with impressed, paddled, and incised decoration and red slip
Gift of the Kang Collection of Korean Art in memory of Robert P. Bergman 1999.228
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Closed kilns built on hills became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.

Description

This small storage jar was hand built from coils of clay before it was finished on a potter's wheel. The thick, vertical ridges covering the surface were impressed into the wet clay using a carved wooden paddle. This network of raised lines was then intersected by four incised lines coursing around the bulbous form and separating the body into lower and upper areas with deft visual simplicity. Such direct, effective design solutions to ceramic decoration appear frequently in early Korean ceramics. The two perforations in the upper body were no doubt used to help secure the lid to the body with cord.
  • ?–1999
    Mrs. Keum Ja Kang, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    December 6, 1999–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Pottery from Ancient Korea: Clay Art for Life and Death [한국고대의토기 : 흙・예술・삶과 죽음]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997.
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Rare Chinese Paintings, Baroque Porcelain Plaque and Other New Acquisitions Exhibited with Hanging Scrolls,” December 20, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
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    Park, Chun-Soo. “Interaction Between Korea and Japan Through Three Kingdom Period Pottery Unearthed from Kin-ki Region [近畿地域 出土 三國時代 土器를 통해 본 韓 · 日關係].” The Journal of Korean Ancient History 49, no. 3 (2008): 51-88. www.dbpia.co.kr
    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. 45
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.228