id: 97705 accession number: 1917.347 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.347 updated: 2023-03-03 07:01:20.396000 Spoon, 918–1392. Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392). Silver bronze; overall: 25.8 cm (10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1917.347 title: Spoon title in original language: 은동 수저 (銀銅匙) 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: silver bronze department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 25.8 cm (10 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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: Celadons, spoons, seals, and bronze mirrors were the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918–1392). Furnishing tombs with an elaborate assemblage of objects was believed to honor and comfort the newly dead. Generally, Goryeo tombs were left untouched until the late 19th century. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists hastily excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period. Scholars recently have proposed that toward the end of the 14th century, Koreans enjoyed meat-based soups more than any other dishes, explaining why many more spoons than chopsticks were buried in tombs. wall description: --- 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: 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 Yun, Seong-jae. “The Special Meanings of Spoons and Chopsticks in the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 분묘출토 청동수저].” Yeoksa wa silhak (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: Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 103 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.347/1917.347_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.347/1917.347_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.347/1917.347_full.tif