Storage Jar with Loop Handles
AD 200s-300s
Maker Unknown
Korean Art
Storage Jar with Loop Handles, AD 200s-300s. Korea, Kaya period (AD 42-562). Earthenware with impressed and incised designs; diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.); overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1989.475 The function of this type of large jar remains unknown, yet it is highly likely that it was used to store harvested grains and seeds. The loops on its round shoulder suggest that the jar once had a lid fastened by cords, to strengthen its seal. Below its short neck, the vessel’s entire body is decorated with rows of short vertical and diagonal lines probably created by grooving and impressing the clay.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware with impressed and incised designs
- Medium
- earthenware, impressed, incised, designs
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.); Overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Korean Art
- Accession Number
- 1989.475
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1989, Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea, The Other Side of the Story - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation, Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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