id: 155824 accession number: 1991.137 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.137 updated: 2022-01-04 17:09:34.180000 Jar with Horn-Shaped Handles, AD 200s-400s. Korea, Silla period (57 BC-AD 676). Earthenware with incised decoration and color; overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); diameter of mouth: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.); diameter with handles: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of George Gund 1991.137 title: Jar with Horn-Shaped Handles title in original language: 쇠뿔모양 손잡이 항아리 (牛角形把手附壺) series: series in original language: creation date: AD 200s-400s creation date earliest: 200 creation date latest: 499 current location: creditline: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of George Gund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Silla period (57 BC-AD 676) technique: earthenware with incised decoration and color department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); Diameter of mouth: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.); Diameter with handles: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary opening date: 1992-10-27T04:00:00 Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993). title: Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea opening date: 1995-09-19T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 3, 1995). title: The Other Side of the Story - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2020-10-30T04:00:00 The Other Side of the Story - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27, 2020-April 25, 2021). title: Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation) opening date: 2021-04-29T04:00:00 Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 29-October 24, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Joseph L. Brotherton [1918-2012], San Francisco, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1991 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: September 23, 1991- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period. digital description: wall description: Pottery vessels, such as this one, were produced in sloping tunnel kilns that reached 1,000 to 1,200 degrees Celsius. This jar’s bulbous body with delicate horn-shaped handles suggests that it may have served to present offerings to the deceased. This type of high-fired terracotta vessel is usually excavated from tomb sites in the southwestern region of the Korean peninsula. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Nelson, Sarah. Gyeongju: The Capital of Golden Silla. Routledge, 2019. page number: url: Lee, So-young, and Denise Patry Leidy. Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. page number: url: Pottery from Ancient Korea: Clay Art for Life and Death [한국고대의토기 : 흙・예술・삶과 죽음]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997. page number: url: Golden Splendors: the Royal Tomb of Silla Hwangnamdaechong [황남 대총: 황금 의 나라 신라 의 왕릉]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2010. page number: url: Kim, Se-ki. "Features of Seongju Area through Ancient Tombs in the Three Kingdom Period [고분자료로 본 삼국시대 성주지역의 정치적 성격]." The Journal of the Research Institute for Silla Culture vol. 43, 2 (2014): 1-27. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE02398114 Kim, Yun-jeong and 8 others. Hangung doja sajeon [한국 도자 사전]. Seoul: Gyeongin munhwasa, 2015. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.137/1991.137_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.137/1991.137_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.137/1991.137_full.tif