Jar with Loop Handle
AD 200s-300s
Maker Unknown
Korean Art
Jar with Loop Handle, AD 200s-300s. Korea, Baekje kingdom (18 BC-660). Earthenware; overall: 33.8 cm (13 5/16 in.); outer diameter: 27.4 cm (10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1997.188 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. The pounding technique (tanal in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware
- Medium
- earthenware
- Dimensions
- Overall: 33.8 cm (13 5/16 in.); Outer diameter: 27.4 cm (10 13/16 in.)
- Departments
- Korean Art
- Accession Number
- 1997.188
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Other Side of the Story - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation, Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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