Eight-faceted Bottle (1800s–1900s): Art, History and Details

Eight-faceted Bottle (1800s–1900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Toward the end of the 1700s, multifaceted bottles like this one became popular with the growing demand from both the elites as well as the middle class. The dark-brown iron oxide pigment makes this eight-faceted bottle earthy, yet sophisticated.

Object facts

• Title: Eight-faceted Bottle
• Date: 1800s–1900s
• Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: stoneware
• Dimensions: Overall: 23.2 cm (9 1/8 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1969.58

A detail from the museum

The exquisite hue of this bottle is from iron oxide, also known as “purple oxide.”

Collection credit

Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.

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.