id: 159892 accession number: 1997.188 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.188 updated: 2022-04-01 09:00:24.711000 Jar with Loop Handle, AD 200s-300s. Korea, Baekje kingdom (18 BC-660). Earthenware; overall: 33.8 cm (13 5/16 in.); outer diameter: 27.4 cm (10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1997.188 title: Jar with Loop Handle title in original language: 뚜껑있는 토기 호 (有蓋土器壺) series: series in original language: creation date: AD 200s-300s creation date earliest: 200 creation date latest: 399 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Baekje kingdom (18 BC-660) technique: earthenware department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 33.8 cm (13 5/16 in.); Outer diameter: 27.4 cm (10 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 Keum Ja Kang, New York, NY date: ?-1981 footnotes: citations: (Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1981-1997 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 1, 1997- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The pounding technique (tanal in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body. digital description: Closed kilns built on hillsides became widely used for producing this type of pottery vessel in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period. Both its gray color and shimmering glaze are the result of the reduction of oxygen in the closed kiln chamber. The pounding technique (tanal in Korean) on the surface strengthened the clay body, leaving behind a geometric pattern. wall description: Terracotta Vessels from Ancient Korea

Early earthenware from the Three Kingdoms period (57 BC–668) became widely utilized as agriculture and religion grew to be essential elements in sustaining society and its systems. The clay jars of different sizes and shapes on display were made for the following purposes: some were used to store harvested grains and seeds, some to preserve cremated remains, and some to serve offerings in rituals. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Pottery from Ancient Korea: Clay Art for Life and Death [한국고대의토기 : 흙・예술・삶과 죽음]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1997. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major European Porcelain Crucifix, Pre-Columbian Figure, and Other Works Added to CMA Collection,” December 3, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4165 Bang, Yu-ri. "A Study on manufacturing skills of the Paekche Pottery: Centered on the Paekche Pottery excavated from the Seolbong
Fortress in Icheon [백제토기 제작 기법 연구: 이천 설봉산성 출토품을 중심으로]." Journal of Korean Cultural History 16 (December 2001): 7-28. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE00831687 Yim, Seung-deok and Jeong-ho Seo. "A Study of Manufacturing Technique on the Padding Pottery in Sabi-Baekjae Period [百濟 泗沘期 打捺文土器 製作技法 硏究." Muhwa sahak (2011): 97-131. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01662041 Kim, Yunjeong and 8 others. Hangung doja sajeon [한국 도자 사전]. Seoul: Gyeongin munhwasa, 2015. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.188/1997.188_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.188/1997.188_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.188/1997.188_full.tif