Altar Dish
Korean
Description
Physical Description:
A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a narrow tapered cylinder with a ridged pattern on it. On top of it is a wide and shallow dish.
This white porcelain ritual vessel is a product of a regional kiln. The foot has a hendecagonal cross-section, while the tray is wide in relation to the foot. The iron-rich clay tinged the vessel with green-brown, while the large amounts of sand contained in the clay formed a rough texture. The foot retains traces of sand supports in eight places. Glaze on the reverse side of the vessel has crawled in parts, revealing the clay body and producing many flaws.
[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.199]
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