Jar with Four Lugs

500s-600s

Jar with Four Lugs, 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hongnam Kim in honor of Evan H. Turner and Michael R. Cunningham 1993.43 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. Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.