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Altar Dish

Korean

Artwork Details

Altar Dish
late 19th century
Korean
glazed porcelain
2 1/2 x 4 9/16 x 4 9/16 in. (6.2 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm)
Gift of Ok Ja Chang and the Chang Family
2009/2.48

Description

Physical Description:

A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide cylinder which tapers sharply into a narrow top. The base supports a wide, almost flat disk as the bowl.

The dish is made from iron-rich clay that tinged the bowl with green-brown. The foot retains traces of sand spurs in eight places. Glaze on the reverse side of the vessel has crawled in parts, revealing the clay body and producing many flaws. This vessel was produced at a regional kiln.
[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.200]

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