Burial Urn with Stamped Design (500s–600s): Art, History and Details

Burial Urn with Stamped Design (500s–600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

After the introduction of Buddhism, cremation became a common practice in Korea. This jar, which once contained the remains of the dead, may have nested in a larger stone container. The repetitive patterns that appear on the lid and the container was done with a stamping technique.

Object facts

• Title: Burial Urn with Stamped Design
• Date: 500s–600s
• Culture: Korea, Unified Silla period (676-935)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: stoneware with stamped designs under olive-green glaze
• Dimensions: Overall: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); Body: 4.4 x 10.7 cm (1 3/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1928.178

A detail from the museum

Containing the remains of the dead, this type of ancient clay pottery was excavated from tombs.

Collection credit

Gift of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Recent Additions to the Collection of Korean Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 9 (November 1928): 182–184
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Lee, Soyoung, and Denise Patry Leidy. Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.

View the collection record

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