id: 156127 accession number: 1991.58 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.58 updated: 2022-01-04 17:10:36.486000 Water Ewer for Rituals (Kundika), 1100s. Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392). Bronze; overall: 39.5 cm (15 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of David S. Utterberg 1991.58 title: Water Ewer for Rituals (Kundika) title in original language: 청동 정병 (靑銅淨甁) series: series in original language: creation date: 1100s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1199 current location: 236 Korean creditline: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of David S. Utterberg copyright: --- culture: Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392) technique: bronze department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 39.5 cm (15 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Object in Focus: Kundika opening date: 2003-07-15T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Kundika. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 14, 2003). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: This distinctively shaped vessel is called a kundika in Sanskrit, simply referring to a water bottle. digital description: Known as kundika in Sanskrit, this distinctively shaped vessel served to purify a sacred space and to invoke a deity. In Korean Buddhist art, it appears primarily as an attribute of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Gwaneum in Korean). By the 1100s, however, the kundika was used as aristocrats’ fancy water container for everyday use. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Choi, Eung-chon. “Craftsmen in Metal Arts in the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 金屬工藝의 匠人].” Misulsahak yeongu (2004): 171-192. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE00996932 Cunningham, Michael R. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 133 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003. page number: url: The spirit of Goryeo in metalcrafts [금속 공예 에 깃든 고려인 의 삶]. Seoul: Jeju National Museum and National Cheongju Museum, 2011. page number: url: Bronze in Life and Art [삶과 예술 속. 청동 靑銅 이야기] National Cheongju Museum (2016). page number: url: Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.58/1991.58_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.58/1991.58_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.58/1991.58_full.tif