Small Storage Jar / Artist Unknown, Korea
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- Accession Number
- 2004/1.171
- Title
- Small Storage Jar
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Artist Nationality
- Korean
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with incised decoration
- Object Creation Date
- 5th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Korean Peninsula (peninsula)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Korean Peninsula (peninsula)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
- Dimensions
- 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 5th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- jar
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- This grayish-blue stoneware jar has a globular body and short, a little flared neck. The surface of the body is adorned with a wave design and encircled with two thin incised lines. The base is flat.
- Subject Matter
- The grayish-blue stoneware is one of the earthenware of the Iron ages. Its clay is similar to that of the reddish brown earthenware. But Its hardness is harder. The design is usually cross stripes or check. It was almost excavated in the Iron age shell mounds of the southern coast of the Korea.
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects
- pottery (object genre)
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2048 x 2276
- File Size
- 620 KB
- Record
- 2004/1.171
- Link to this Item
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"Small Storage Jar; Artist Unknown, Korea." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2004-sl-1.171/2004_1.171.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
