Pedestaled Vessel with Incised Band Design (300s CE): Art, History and Details

Pedestaled Vessel with Incised Band Design (300s CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This pedestaled earthenware was a product of closed kilns built on hillsides, which 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. Due to its relatively tall pedestal, this vessel may have been used for more for ritual settings than everyday use.

Object facts

• Title: Pedestaled Vessel with Incised Band Design
• Date: 300s CE
• Culture: Korea, Proto-Three Kingdoms period
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: earthenware
• Dimensions: Overall: 26.1 cm (10 1/4 in.); Outer diameter: 22.7 cm (8 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1997.10

A detail from the museum

This pedestaled earthenware may have been used for ritual offerings to ancestors.

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Pottery from Ancient Korea: Clay Art for Life and Death [한국고대의토기 : 흙・예술・삶과 죽음]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997.
• Kim, Yun-jeong and 8 others. Hangung doja sajeon [한국 도자 사전]. Seoul: Gyeongin munhwasa, 2015.

View the collection record

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