Collection Online as of May 24, 2022

Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration

AD 200s-300s

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Korea, Baekje kingdom

(18 BC-660)

Earthenware

Overall: 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1997.188.a

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

Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period. Both its gray color and shimmering glaze are the result of the reduction of oxygen in the closed kiln chamber. The pounding technique (tanal in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body, leaving behind a geometric pattern.

Provenance

Keum Ja Kang, New York, NY

?-1997

(Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

December 1, 1997-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

The Other Side of the Story - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27, 2020-April 25, 2021).

Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 29-October 24, 2021).