Accession Number
2004/1.173

Title
Storage Jar with wide mouth and everted rim

Artist(s)
Korean

Artist Nationality
Korean (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
6th century

Medium & Support
stoneware

Dimensions
5 1/2 x 4 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. (13.9 x 10.3 x 10.3 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 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 surface of the body is encircled with a lot of thin incised lines. The base is a little flat.

This is a dark gray, short-necked, high-fired stoneware jar with a flat bottom. The edge of the rim is round, and the inner surface of the neck is slightly tapered below the rim. The body is at its widest in the central part, while the flat base is rounded where it meets the body and is slightly indented at the edges. The entire body shows traces of rotation and water smoothing, with uneven surfaces resulting from rough water smoothing particularly visible on the lower part. The base also shows traces of having been pared and rubbed.

[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 50]

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)
earthenware
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storage jars