id: 97690 accession number: 1917.333 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.333 updated: Spoon with Dual Heads, 918–1392. Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392). overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1917.333 title: Spoon with Dual Heads title in original language: 약시형 청동 수저 (藥匙形靑銅匙) series: series in original language: creation date: 918–1392 creation date earliest: 918 creation date latest: 1392 current location: creditline: General Income Fund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392) technique: department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ – Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2019-01-23T05:00:00 Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ – Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 21-July 21, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Bronze spoons are the most common burial item. Scholars have proposed that toward the end of the 14th century, Koreans enjoyed meat-based soups more than any other dishes, explaining why spoons became common household items as well as burial goods. digital description: wall description: This bronze spoon has dual heads: one is large, and the other small. The smaller head is believed to have been used to hold a small dose of liquid medicine. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS L. W. "Korean Bronze Spoons of the Korai Dynasty." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 6 (1917): 99-101. page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 99-101 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136106 Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003. page number: url: Yoon, Sung-Jae. "The Aspects and Meaning of Spoon and Chopsticks in the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 분묘출토 청동수저]." Yeoksa silhakhoe 56 (2015): 51-68. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE06339542 Bronze in Life and Art [삶과 예술 속. 청동 靑銅 이야기] National Cheongju Museum (2016). page number: url: Jeong, Eui-do. Changes of Spoons during the Late Goryeo Period [고려후기 숟가락의 변화].” Hanguk jungse gogohak (2017): 139-157. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE07262104 Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018. page number: url: Horlyck, Charlotte. "The Eternal Link: Grave Goods of the Koryŏ Kingdom (918-1392 CE)." Ars Orientalis, no. 44 (2014): 156-79. page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489802 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.333/1917.333_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.333/1917.333_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.333/1917.333_full.tif