id: 98815 accession number: 1918.493 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.493 updated: 2022-01-04 14:43:56.682000 Incense Burner with Lotus Petal Design in Relief, 1100s. Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392). Stoneware; overall: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Director's Contingent Fund 1918.493 title: Incense Burner with Lotus Petal Design in Relief title in original language: 청자 양각 연판무늬 향완 (靑磁陽刻蓮瓣文香碗) series: series in original language: creation date: 1100s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1199 current location: creditline: Director's Contingent Fund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392) technique: stoneware department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE acquired by Langdon Warner in Korea. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This incense burner may have been produced at one of the state-run kilns located in Kangjin, southern Jeolla province. The exterior decor that resembles an opening lotus flower was shaped in a carved wooden mold. Then the potter touched it up with incised details. digital description: Celadons wares used for everyday such as this incense burner were among 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 competitively excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period, and these wares soon became available for Japanese and Western collectors. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003. page number: url: Jang, Nam-won. "The Characteristics of Mid-Goryeo Celadons with Molded Design [高麗中期壓出陽刻 靑瓷의 性格]." Misulsahak yeongu (2004): 95-120. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE00997744 Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018. page number: url: Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon [高麗青磁 : ヒスイのきらめき]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka: Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, 2018. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.493/1918.493_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.493/1918.493_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.493/1918.493_full.tif