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Jar with Scroll Design

분청사기 상감 당초무늬 호 (粉靑沙器象嵌唐草文壺)

1400s

Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392-1910)

Buncheong ware with incised, stamped, and slip-inlaid decoration

Height: 37.6 cm (14 13/16 in.); Outer diameter: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1963.505

Location

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The tiny ear-like handles located around the jar's shoulder allowing string to pass through were used to keep the lid (now missing) tightly closed.

Description

In premodern Korea, a newborn baby’s umbilical cord and placenta were believed to be a symbol of the life force of the fetus and thus kept in a specially arranged burial site. This jar was made exclusively for burying a placenta, a custom practiced by aristocratic families in Korea in the belief that it would bring happiness to the child.

Provenance

?–1963

(N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1963–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, So-young, and Seung-chang Jeon. Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.

Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.

Park, Kyung-ja and Park Hyeong-soon. “Evolution of the Buncheong Wares in the Early Joseon Period as the White Porcelain Takes over the Taxation Supply [조선 전기 공납용 백자제작에 따른 분청사기 양식변화].” Misul sahak (2010): 291-321. www.dbpia.co.kr

Buncheong Ware [분청사기]. Seoul: Ehwa Woman’s Universtiry Museum, 2019.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 365 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 137, no. 140

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Michael R. Cunningham. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art; New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998. Reproduced: p. 243

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 253

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. 82

Exhibition history

Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).

Korean Ceramics. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (April 18-June 2, 1968); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (July 15-August 30, 1968); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (October 1-November 15, 1968).

Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).

Material and Immaterial in Korean Modern and Contemporary Art (Korean art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 28, 2023-February 25, 2024).

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Jar with Scroll Design

Jar with Scroll Design

분청사기 상감 당초무늬 호 (粉靑沙器象嵌唐草文壺)

Korea, Joseon dynasty

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