Vessel with Two Lugs (100s BCE): Art, History and Details

Vessel with Two Lugs (100s BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The form of this early earthenware pot corresponds rather closely to the red earthenware vessel with horn-shaped handles (CMA 1997.186). The attractive, gritty fabric of the clay body, the sooty black firing marks as well as the folded and hand-crimped rim help clarify the evolution of this functional shape in early Korean ceramic history.

Object facts

• Title: Vessel with Two Lugs
• Date: 100s BCE
• Culture: Korea, Proto-Three Kingdoms period
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: earthenware
• Dimensions: Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); Outer diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1999.91

A detail from the museum

This earthenware with two handles may have been used for cooking.

Collection credit

John L. Severance 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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