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Bottle with a Flattened Side

Bottle with a Flattened Side

700s–800s
(676-935) or early Goryeo (918-1392)
stoneware with incised designs
Overall: 25.1 cm (9 7/8 in.); Diameter: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1999.92
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Its gray color and shimmering glaze both are the result of the reduction of oxygen in the closed kiln chamber built on hillsides.

Description

By the 700s, this type of bottle started to be produced as a utilitarian vessel and was enjoyed among ruling elites. The flattened example like this may have served as a portable wine bottle.
  • Keum Ja Kang, New York, NY
    –1999
    (Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    June 7, 1999–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Hangung godaeui togi: heuk, yesul, samgwa jugeum [한국 고대의 토기: 흙・예술・삶과 죽음]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997.
    Kim, Kumja Paik. Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture in cooperation with the National Museum of Korea and the Nara National Museum, 2003.
    Lee, Soyoung, and Denise Patry Leidy. Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.
    Kim, Yunjeong and 8 others. Hangung doja sajeon [한국 도자 사전]. Seoul: Gyeongin munhwasa, 2015.
    Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.
    Nelson, Sarah. Gyeongju: The Capital of Golden Silla. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
    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. 47
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