Dish with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design (1200s): Art, History and Details

Dish with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design (1200s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Celadon wares used for everyday such as this dish were among the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918–1392). Furnishing tombs with an elaborate assemblage of objects was believed to honor and comfort the newly dead. Generally, Goryeo tombs were left untouched until the late 1800s. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists competitively excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period, and these wares soon became available for Japanese and Western collectors.

Object facts

• Title: Dish with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design
• Date: 1200s
• Culture: Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Diameter of mouth: 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1924.135

A detail from the museum

On the base of this tea bowl, three small spur marks made of bits of clay remain visible, indicating an individual protective casing of fire clay (saggar).

Collection credit

Educational Purchase Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Warner, Lorraine D’O. “Korean Grave Pottery of the Korai Dynasty.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 3 (April 1919): 46–58.
• Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
• Lee, Young-hee. "The Study on Techniques and their Interrelations among Craft Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 공예기법 연구 상호관련성을 중심으로]." Misulsa hakbo 22 (2004): 133–170.

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