Lidded Jar with Horn Handle
Unknown Artist
400s-500s CE
Medium
red earthenware with impressed designs and applied red slip
Dimensions
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Classification
Ceramic
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the John D. Proctor Foundation
Accession Number
1997.21
About this artwork
This type of pottery vessel was a product of closed kilns built on hillsides, which became widely used in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period. Its low-fired red surface indicates the various steps in its fabrication. First, coils of clay were layered on top of one another and pinched together to form the wall of the pot. Then wood mallets with carved surfaces pounded these walls simultaneously, inside and out, merging and thinning the clay bands. Thus the impressed designs visible on both the...