id:			98863
accession number:	1918.538
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.538
updated:		2023-03-03 07:01:26.054000

Spoon, 918–1392. Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392). Bronze; overall: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1918.538

title:				Spoon
title in original language:	청동 수저 (靑銅匙)
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creation date:			918–1392
creation date earliest:		918
creation date latest:		1392
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creditline:			General Income Fund
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culture:	Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392)
technique:	bronze
department:	Korean Art
collection:	Korean Art
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Overall: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	acquired by Langdon Warner in Korea.
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fun fact:
Bronze spoons are the most common burial items. 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.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
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	Horlyck Charlotte. "The Eternal Link: Grave Goods of the Koryŏ Kingdom (918-1392 CE)." <em>Ars Orientalis</em>, no. 44 (2014): 156-79.
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	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489802

	Yun, Seong-jae. “The Special Meanings of Spoons and Chopsticks in the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 분묘출토 청동수저].” <em>Yeoksa wa silhak</em> (2015): 51-68.
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	url:		https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE06339542

	<em>Bronze in Life and Art</em> [삶과 예술 속. 청동 靑銅 이야기] National Cheongju Museum (2016).
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	Jeong, Eui-do. Changes of Spoons during the Late Goryeo Period [고려후기 숟가락의 변화].” <em>Hanguk jungse gogohak</em> (2017): 139-157.
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	url:		https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE07262104

	<em>Goryeo: The Glory of Korea </em>[대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.
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