Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid) (200s–300s CE): Art, History and Details

Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid) (200s–300s CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

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.

Object facts

• Title: Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration (lid)
• Date: 200s–300s CE
• Culture: Korea, Baekje kingdom (18 BCE–660 CE)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: earthenware
• Dimensions: Overall: 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1997.188.b

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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