The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 16, 2022

Jar with Four Lugs

짧은 목 토기 호 (短頸土器壺)

500s-600s

Korea, Three Kingdoms period

(57 BC-AD 668)

Stoneware with traces of ash glaze

Diameter: 32.6 cm (12 13/16 in.); Overall: 29.9 cm (11 3/4 in.)

Gift of Hongnam Kim in honor of Evan H. Turner and Michael R. Cunningham 1993.43

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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

Description

This storage jar comes from the Paekche kilns. The matte gray surface of ash deposits on the upper body provides an appealing decoration. Paekche potters often employed the pounding technique (tanal in Korean) to treat the surface, a method to strengthen the clay body.

Provenance
May 5, 1993
Cleveland Museum of Art
May 5, 1993
Hongnam Kim [born 1948] (given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, May 5, 1993)
Citations
Yim, Seung-deok and Jeong-ho Seo. "A Study of Manufacturing Technique on the Padding Pottery in Sabi-Baekjae Period [百濟 泗沘期 打捺文土器 製作技法 硏究." Muhwa sahak (2011): 97-131. www.dbpia.co.kr
Lee, Chang-hyun and Yu-ri Shin. “A Study on Residential areas in Yeongdong District during the Period of the Three Kingdoms [嶺東地方三國時代住居址試論].” Munhwa sahak 33 (2010): 21-61. www.dbpia.co.kr
Hwang, Bo-kyung. “Damaged Patterns and Purpose of the Damaged Earthenware Found in the Tombs of Shilla Dynasty in Seoul and Gyeonggi Areas [서울·경기지역신라고분부장토기의훼기습속고찰].” Minsokhak yeongu 41 (2017): 231-262. www.dbpia.co.kr
Exhibition history

Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 3, 1995).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.43