Large storage jar on cut-out pedestal foot / Artist Unknown, Korea
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.185
- Title
- Large storage jar on cut-out pedestal foot
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Artist Nationality
- Korean
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- Object Creation Date
- circa 500
- 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
- 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.)
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- jar
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ritual Objects
- Physical Description
- The gray jar with a little long neck has a foot with rectangular perforations. The relatively thick mouth is slightly everted. Three deep incisions encircle the midsection of the neck. The globular body is decorated with two incised line encircled the body. There are wave designs on the neck and upper body. The foot whose bottom is rolled outward is a little high and wide.
- Subject Matter
- Long-necked jars, often with a pierced stand, were used for ceremonies and placed in the tomb with the dead. Burial chamber were filled with such pieces, which were meant to serve the dead in the afterlife. A great deal of our understanding about the material culture of Silla comes from such burial goods.
- 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
- Record
- 2004/1.185
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2004-sl-1.185/2004_1.185.jpg
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"Large storage jar on cut-out pedestal foot; Artist Unknown, Korea." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2004-sl-1.185/2004_1.185.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
