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Jar with Four Lugs
500s-600s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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 (<em>tanal </em>in Korean) to treat the surface, a method to strengthen the clay body.
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- Title: Jar with Four Lugs
- Date Created: 500s-600s
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 32.6 cm (12 13/16 in.); Overall: 29.9 cm (11 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Cleveland Museum of Art, Hongnam Kim [born 1948] (given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, May 5, 1993)
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.43
- Medium: stoneware with traces of ash glaze
- Original Title: 짧은 목 토기 호 (短頸土器壺)
- Fun Fact: Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BC-AD 668)
- Credit Line: Gift of Hongnam Kim in honor of Evan H. Turner and Michael R. Cunningham
- Collection: Korean Art
- Accession Number: 1993.43
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