Lidded Vessel with Loop Handles
Unknown Artist
57 BCE–668 CE
Medium
earthenware, with impressed, paddled, and incised decoration and red slip
Dimensions
h. 21.5 cm · diam. 19.5 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Kang Collection of Korean Art in memory of Robert P. Bergman
Accession Number
1999.228
About this artwork
This small storage jar was hand built from coils of clay before it was finished on a potter's wheel. The thick, vertical ridges covering the surface were impressed into the wet clay using a carved wooden paddle. This network of raised lines was then intersected by four incised lines coursing around the bulbous form and separating the body into lower and upper areas with deft visual simplicity. Such direct, effective design solutions to ceramic decoration appear frequently in early Korean ceramic...