Small-mouthed storage jar with impressed cord design

Accession Number
2004/1.164

Title
Small-mouthed storage jar with impressed cord design

Artist(s)
Korean

Artist Nationality
Korean (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
6th century

Medium & Support
stoneware with impressed cord mark design

Dimensions
6 9/16 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (16.6 x 11.3 x 11.3 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam

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’s shell mounds of the southern coast of the Korea.

Physical Description
This grayish-blue stoneware jar has a globular body and short, a little flared neck. The entire surface of the body is adorned with vertical line and encircled with thin incised lines. The base is flat.

This is a gray, bottle-shaped, high-fired vessel. It is covered entirely with parallel diagonal striations, and these have been erased in some parts by rubbing the surface from right to left. The neck, connected to the top of the body where it suddenly grows much narrower, flares widely toward the rim, which has a grooved edge. The body is widest at its middle, around which two thin horizontal lines are incised. The lower part of the outer surface has been pared during rotation. The base of the vessel is flat and has a recessed center.

[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 75]



 

Primary Object Classification
Ceramic

Primary Object Type
jar

Additional Object Classification(s)
Decorative Arts

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Three Kingdoms (Korean)
cord (fiber product)
earthenware
jar
storage jars

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On display

UMMA Gallery Location ➜ FFW, Lower Level ➜ 053 (Education Center Display Cabinets) ➜ Cabinet D ➜ Shelf 1