Wide-mouthed Bottle (1100s): Art, History and Details

Wide-mouthed Bottle (1100s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite culture in Korea. Elites of the Goryeo period commissioned a variety of types of utensils and vessels including this handsome wine bottle, to make their drinking experience more exciting.

Object facts

• Title: Wide-mouthed Bottle
• Date: 1100s
• Culture: Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: celadon
• Dimensions: Overall: 28.3 cm (11 1/8 in.); Outer diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1918.435

A detail from the museum

The distinctive bluish and greenish glaze of Goryeo celadons, shown in this bottle, is the result of distinctive small and long Korean kilns, which maintained a low oxygen saturation with a high level of carbon dioxide.

Collection credit

Gift of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Kim, Hyeon'a. "A Study on Consumption Trend of Bangujangkeng bottle in the Goryeo Period [고려시대 瓷器盤口長頸甁의 소비성격과 조형변천]." Misul sahak (2008): 105–141.
• Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon [高麗青磁 : ヒスイのきらめき]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka: Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, 2018.
• 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

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