Bottle with a Flattened Side (700s–800s): Art, History and Details
Bottle with a Flattened Side at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 700s–800s, stoneware with incised designs. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Bottle with a Flattened Side (700s–800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
By the 700s, this type of bottle started to be produced as a utilitarian vessel and was enjoyed among ruling elites. The flattened example like this may have served as a portable wine bottle.
Object facts
- Title: Bottle with a Flattened Side
- Date: 700s–800s
- Culture: Korea, late Unified Silla (676-935) or early Goryeo (918-1392) period
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: stoneware with incised designs
- Dimensions: Overall: 25.1 cm (9 7/8 in.); Diameter: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.)
- Collection: Korean Art
- Department: Korean Art
- Accession number: 1999.92
A detail from the museum
Its gray color and shimmering glaze both are the result of the reduction of oxygen in the closed kiln chamber built on hillsides.
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Hangung godaeui togi: heuk, yesul, samgwa jugeum [한국 고대의 토기: 흙・예술・삶과 죽음]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997.
- Kim, Kumja Paik. Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture in cooperation with the National Museum of Korea and the Nara National Museum, 2003.
- Lee, Soyoung, and Denise Patry Leidy. Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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