Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration

AD 200s-300s

Jar with Loop Handle with Overall Impressed Surface Decoration, AD 200s-300s. Korea, Baekje kingdom (18 BC-660). Earthenware; overall: 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1997.188.a Closed kilns built on hillsides 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. The pounding technique (tanal in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body, leaving behind a geometric pattern. Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.