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Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid)

AD 200s-300s

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

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 (<em>tanal </em>in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body, leaving behind a geometric pattern.

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  • Title: Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid)
  • Date Created: AD 200s-300s
  • Physical Dimensions: Overall: 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
  • Provenance: Keum Ja Kang, New York, NY, (Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Ceramic
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.188.b
  • Medium: earthenware
  • 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, Baekje kingdom (18 BC-660)
  • Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
  • Collection: Korean Art
  • Accession Number: 1997.188.b
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