Lidded Cup with Strap Handles (300s–400s CE): Art, History and Details
Lidded Cup with Strap Handles at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 300s–400s CE, stoneware with natural ash glaze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Lidded Cup with Strap Handles (300s–400s CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Pottery vessels with a footed stand such as this one is the earliest known high-fired ware. Its gray color is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the closed kiln chamber. Footed vessels were not for everyday usage, but rather served to present offerings to the deceased.
Object facts
- Title: Lidded Cup with Strap Handles
- Date: 300s–400s CE
- Culture: Korea, Gaya period (42–562 CE)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: stoneware with natural ash glaze
- Dimensions: Overall: 21.1 cm (8 5/16 in.); Outer diameter: 15.7 cm (6 3/16 in.)
- Collection: Korean Art
- Department: Korean Art
- Accession number: 1997.9
A detail from the museum
A series of triangular cutouts shown on the bottom are standard features of Kaya pottery.
Collection credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Kwon, Ju-hyeon. "A Living Culture of People of Kaya: Focused on Dietary Culture [加耶人의 生活文化: 食文化를 中心으로]." Hangukgodaesa yeongu 16 (November 1999): 345–374.
- Seong, Jeong-young . "Chronology of Three Kingdoms Age Pottery in Geumsan [금산지역 삼국시대 토기편년: 백제와 가야 세력 사이의 내륙교통로에 대한 이해를 위하여]." The Honam Archaeological Society 16 (2002): 53–78.
- Gaya Tombs [가야 무덤]. Changwon: Gaya National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, 2007.
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