Lidded Cup with Strap Handles (lid) (300s–400s CE): Art, History and Details

Lidded Cup with Strap Handles (lid) (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 (lid)
• Date: 300s–400s CE
• Culture: Korea, Gaya period (42–562 CE)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: stoneware with natural ash glaze
• Dimensions: Diameter of mouth: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); Overall: 21.5 x 20.5 cm (8 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1997.9.b

A detail from the museum

This is a lid for a ritual pottery vessel.

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.

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.