Long-necked Jar (200s–300s CE): Art, History and Details

Long-necked Jar (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:

Pottery vessels with a footed stand, such as this one, are the earliest known high-fired ware produced in closed kilns built on hillsides. Its gray color is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the kiln chamber. Footed vessels were not practical enough for everyday use, but were used to present offerings to the deceased in highly elaborate ritual ceremonies.

Object facts

• Title: Long-necked Jar
• Date: 200s–300s CE
• Culture: Korea, Silla (57 BCE–935 CE)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: gray pottery
• Dimensions: Overall: 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1948.14

A detail from the museum

Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.

Collection credit

Gift of James Kitchen

Further reading listed by the museum

• Golden Splendors: the Royal Tomb of Silla Hwangnamdaechong [황남대총: 황금의나라신라의왕릉]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2010.
• Lee, So-young, and Denise Patry Leidy. Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.
• Kim, Yun-jeong and 8 others. Hanguk doja sajeon [한국 도자 사전]. Seoul: Gyeongin munhwasa, 2015.

View the collection record

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